Quotes About Play

In his thirteenth year he was old enough to play on the rocks at Scandal Point without having to be watched over by his ayah, Kasturba.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

For youth, everything is sport.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

It's not that I really cheat at golf. I play for my health and a low score makes me feel better.

I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that I won't play.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears with self-understanding, self-esteem, and personal strength.

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall

Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their most profound emotions-love, fear, excitement, disappointment, anger and joy.

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

and who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these

Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him, and Annie had followed her single soldier up the dune to a grassy patch where the wind whipped her dark hair and the blowing sand made her squint, even