Quotes About Play

I didn't really set any goals, just trying to go and play the game.

I love to see goals and attacking play; I want us to be entertaining. But it's no good if you're shipping goals.

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

Golf will grow so long as it's fun.

As a kid, I really wasn't thinkin' about no golf.

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

Fun is good.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.

Brighton is such a good place to bring up kids.

I just wanted to play and that's all I worried about. If someone wanted to trade for me, I always thought it was a good sign.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!

Men need play & danger. Civilization gives them work and safety.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

Seriousness in play. At sunset in Genoa, I heard from a tower a long chiming of bells; it kept on and on, and over the noise of the backstreets, as if insatiable for itself, it rang out into the evening sky and the sea air, so terrible and so childish at the same time, so melancholy. then I thoughts of Platos's words and felt them suddenly in my heart: all in all, nothing human is worth taking very seriously; nevertheless ...

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy; around the demi-god, into a satyr play; and around God--what? perhaps into world?

By the hedgehog,' said the smaller, grinning wickedly, 'but they'll think twice before they play at ambuscades again!

Modern toys entertain them with a bag of tricks that leave the young 'uns no room for imagination. They couldn't possibly think up, on their own, all the screwy things these new toys do.