Quotes on Play

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. _x000D_ Don't just download the latest app, help design it. _x000D_ Don't just play on your phone, program it.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinée in Hull, it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

When I was 12 years old, I was just horrible. My parents were ashamed to watch my matches. I would play on a court at the local club and they would watch from the balcony. They would scream, 'Be quiet' to me and I would scream back, 'Go and have a drink. Leave me alone.' Then we would drive home in a very quiet car. No one speaking to each other.

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.