Quotes About Play

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

I love this style: get the ball back quickly, then play possession with so many combinations. When you watch that, you get the feeling you want to go out on the pitch and play football with your friends and just enjoy yourself. City and Barcelona are great examples.

I like to have the ball, to have possession and to play passes, to create chances for my team-mates. I think that is what makes me strong.

A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

I don't like isolation play, unless you're in the low post.

When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

I really enjoyed doing Albee's 'The Goat.' It's a powerful piece and a really exciting play to do.

When we talk about Arsene Wenger, I like the fact that he focuses 80 percent about the style of play he wants for his team and not taking so much consideration into the other team.

Not a lot of teams take you into consideration, like a lot of teams can easily decide to if you're hurt or anything, make you go play.

There's a lot of guys in the NBA; it's about finding the right fit, a coach that has some trust in you that will play you night in and night out, consistently. Trying to find a right fit is the tough part.

Passion isn't something you work on. It's more important to construct a good team, to know how you are going to play, how to read the match. You have to truly understand the game.

I love to play in the middle to be in contact with the ball all the time. I'm very happy to play in that position.

That's your goal every week: to put yourself in contention. There's a lot of circumstances and a lot of things that have to play out for that to happen.

Nobody will write in your contract that you have the assurance to play.

I have two years left on my contract with Hertha Berlin, but I'd like to play in England and if I'm offered a good contract from an English club then I'd want to go there.

I create a world where kids rule. If you think about it, kids are always being told what to do, what to say, when to do it - they're very controlled... I give them an escape, where the kids are in charge.

I am convinced that when the team plays well, the attackers will have chances to score - and that's why I will have the chance to score.

I am convinced that you should always play the way you want to play and success will then come on its own - as long as it's a good philosophy.

The cool thing about being in drag, just like getting to play a role in a play, is that you get to play a fantasy and you get to play someone else that you're not used to.

I don't want to play a copper. I couldn't do it.