Quotes About Recreation

holidays took the poisons out of everyday life.

We had reached the bathing pavilion. There I checked the bag, together with my watch and money, putting the two last-named articles in a big manila envelope and writing my name across the back. I received in exchange a numbered metal tag on a thick rubber band. I followed Bat Shayne's example of putting this band around my neck, feeling just a little like a licensed dog as I did so.

The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

As Jessica de Bloom, a psychologist at the University of Tampere and vacation researcher, puts it, vacations are like sleep: you need to take them regularly to benefit.

I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

I am just a guy that watches sports all day.

I'm a crazy lunatic, but a lot of the time I'm just sitting at home watching movies.

My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.

To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.

As a mom, spending quality time on the water with my family is a simple and relaxing way to unplug.

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

A cocktail and an oyster is an awfully good thing after a park, especially one close to water.

Submerging myself in water makes me feel better after travelling. There's something about it that does it for me, and I usually go for a swim after every trip.

I'm not trying to top the 'Muddy Waters' album. What I'm doing by naming it 'Muddy Waters 2' is to let you relive that '90s kind of sound and experience.

Surfing is definitely something I used to do a lot more before I was working, but I know the waves will always be there, and it's something that, when I'm not traveling as much, I'll definitely get back into.

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

I'll never forget this memory: I was at home, and suddenly my father came home with 10 footballs for me. I lived by a football pitch, so every day, I'd take the ball and practice shooting.

My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that's really for kids.

I am not going to play basketball because I have to play. I am going to play for fun.

I love to play basketball, but I haven't played in awhile. But if I could get back on the court and play, I definitely would.

Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.