Quotes About Recreation

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

Frisbees are like towels - you should never leave home without one.

Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?

I said I didn't like tricks, I liked life as I knew it recreated on the page. He said it wasn't possible to recreate life on the page without tricks.

What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.

I loved rollerskating when I was younger.

When we were at school my younger brother and I were very sporty, so we did a lot of stuff outside school, club activities. Summer holidays, though, my mum would take off a big chunk of time and my dad would take some time off and I have the fondest memories of the things we'd do as a family.

Cricket is great for families, so long as you don't play by the proper rules and adapt it so the youngest can be helped to stay doing the exciting stuff.

As a youngster, I really enjoyed watching cricket.

Entertainment is there to improve people's quality of life. After your basic needs, there's entertainment.

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

It's a cycle, 20 years down the line, they will remix today's songs for the youth to listen to at that time.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

Normally if I am on holiday I'll be planning a fishing trip or a surfing trip.

Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole.

Our family tradition is to make a trip up to Acadia and do some hiking and enjoy the outdoors there.

My first trip was probably to Camber Sands in East Sussex, where I remember playing in the dunes on the beach.

One of my fondest memories is of our skiing trips. Mum's approach to the sport was methodical, doing all the manoeuvres correctly and carefully.

I was very active in the Parks and Recreation department. I recall a lot of the things we had to do, from the trips for the department to organizing a Little League, those sorts of things.

I grew up fly fishing when I was a kid. The feeling of it is fun. I went fly-fishing on Lake Delaware once, and I caught a record brook trout.

The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.