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Quotes About Play

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
~ Tommy Lasorda
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.
~ Joe Paterno
You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.
~ Willie Stargell
What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
~ Bobby Hull
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
~ Joe DiMaggio
He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
~ William Blake
The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
~ Barry Sanders
I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.
~ Novak Djokovic
A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.
~ Jim Lefebvre
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.
~ Steve Largent
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
~ Michel de Montaigne
So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.
~ Steve Spurrier
It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.
~ Bill Sharman
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
~ Gail Parent
The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
~ Nancy Lopez
The sports of children satisfy the child.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.
~ Shelagh Delaney
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
~ Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
~ Albert Einstein
Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut
~ Albert Einstein
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
~ Albert Einstein