Quotes on Play

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships.

A lot of players know how to play the game, but they really don't know how to play the game, if you know what I mean. They can put the ball in the hoop, but I see things before they even happen. You know how a guy can make his team so much better? That's one thing I learned from watching Jordan.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

The one advantage of playing with fire...is_x000D_ _x000D_ that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sign that it's time to leave. For now though, I'm happy here at the greatest club in the world.

I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.