Quotes About Play

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another.

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.

I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

I don't really see myself as a pop star. I guess I just really enjoy being able to play my music for people who actually want to listen to it.

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

Everyone wants to come to Portland to play, whether for us or against us.

In Portugal the coach would sit on the bench and not say a word. We'd just play. It was a matter of us making mistakes and learning from them by ourselves. You understand the game a lot better that way.

It's very different, because in Portugal we don't play during the Christmas holidays. But I think it's very good for the fans and everyone around, because families can enjoy the games together during the holidays. For my family, it's also good because they like to see me perform and they like to see my play.

What position didn't I play last season?

Ball position is everything in iron play. If you aren't careful about it, you can create some major problems in your game just by getting an inch or two off.

As a kid, you put yourself in those positions. Bases loaded, two outs, you're at the plate. That's kind of the way I envision it as a kid playing whiffle ball or whatever the case was.

I just want to be playing! I love to play. But I think I can play in the three positions behind the striker.

There's a lot of positions I like to play. I think maybe the diversity is something positive.

Anytime you get an opportunity to put more fun into the game, that's good. I've got a lot of positive energy.

A lot of the kids gave a lot of positive feedback about if I ever became a coach, they would love to play in our program. And I was very confident that we would be able to get the top-tier players to come in.

We want to dominate, we want to entertain the crowd and play in a very positive way.

Look, I want to play as many games as I can, and I want to contribute in a positive way as much as I can.

For me, on the ice that's my job, to have an impact on the team in a positive way that fits into our system and how we want to play.

When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.

With Jorginho it depends what type of football you want to play. If you want to play possession where you have the ball all the time and you play a lot of passes, there are not many as good as him around. If you ask Jorginho to cover 50 metres of pitch in width and get all the balls back, it's going to be difficult.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.