Quotes About Play

I loved playing cricket from my childhood. My dad made me play in the streets, and my interest grew. He put me in a club, seeing this. My habit grew from that point.

I started playing football in the streets.

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

Almost every football player played on the streets. And also, a lot of people not ending up as football players play on the streets. It's the beginning of a lot of social gathering.

I used to play football on the streets, kicking breadfruits or oranges.

I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

I started playing football on the streets; I grew up playing football on the streets with my friends, and that's why I was brought up the way I was. That's the school I had - the street football.

I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.

I grew up playing in the streets. We played two-hand touch from street pole to street pole. That's how I learned the game.

I always played football with my friends on the streets of Eure, in Normandy, not far from Paris.

As a kid, we used to play wearing a Liverpool shirt in the streets.

I was always playing on the streets with my friends until I was 15 or 16 and I wanted to do things with my skills that were exciting.

My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch... we played cricket with anything we put our hands on - a hard orange, a lime, a marble - anything we could use in the backyard or the streets.

I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

I just play to my strengths and my ability.

Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude.

That's one of my strengths, that I can adjust, and I can play with anyone.

I like playing in the post, so a system that plays to my strengths is important.

It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.

It really didn't matter how much work I had to put in... I was always going to give my best. And I think that if a lot of kids can realize that, and stick with that mindset, they won't get so stressed about certain things, and they can just live and play freely.

All my siblings went to college, and my parents stressed getting school work done first before we could play.