Quotes About Recreation

Central Park is the most amazing gift. It's incredible. You find new spots, new people, new friends for the dogs.

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

I was very keen on squash. My father used to go to sleep in the afternoon. Normally, in Pakistan, everybody goes to sleep in the afternoon, because it's really hot. I'd go and play without telling anybody.

I don't play golf and I don't collect stamps. I don't ride horses. I don't go mountain hiking, I don't go star gazing. I don't do any of that.

Bringing back stamp collecting and bringing back bridge seems like a pretty good way to fight the modern world.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

Sometimes when I need to relax, I just watch in the stands how people are enjoying the tennis or what they are eating.

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Man's most serious activity is play.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.

I love having the mountains nearby so I can get on the motorbike or bike and get off to go for a walk.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went.

I love a good Netflix binge!

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

I've played golf everywhere in New Jersey. People are nice to me. It's great.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games.

wakeboarding or skiing is a lot easier. Just get in the boat, lower the lift, and go. You can

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others.

We need poetry . . . We deserve poetry We owe it to ourselves to re-create ourselves and find a different if not better way to live