Play Quotes

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.

Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that

Any character you play, you're on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what's good about him.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.

I don't mind what I play, really.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.

When we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.

You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space; a good head space.

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

It was a good opportunity for me to wear a NBA jersey. The Golden State Warriors gave me an opportunity to come in and play for them. I was very appreciative of that.

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

We'll run a lot of multiple sets - pro set, twin set, the box set, ... We'll run a lot of option plays and pass the ball more than in the past.

You better play together as a team or you sit.

One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.