Quotes About Playing

It's nice I inspire the kids. tThat's the most important thing, and more people are now playing tennis, even for fun. That's great.

When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than when they are being played. Because they add tension. It's also an ego-less thing - a place where you have no ego - when you're with a bunch of musicians who stop and listen instead.

Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.

It's terrible to consider never playing another Test again but what's more terrifying is the thought of never playing again at all.

I have a dream of playing 100 Tests.

This isn't a game we're playing between ourselves, he continued. Don't pretend that it is. Isn't it? A challenge flared in her eyes, like fire inside the purest emerald. Don't lie to me, John. Don't pretend it's any more than it really is. It's a job. One we're both determined to complete, nothing more. Like hell.

All this is only fooling, for if it is true that every man must work for his own salvation, then all the prophecies about the future of the world are only valuable and allowable as a recreation, or a joke, like playing bowls or cards.

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

as we turned the corner and began to walk down the rutted track that led to Staples Inn Gardens. The moment we appeared, the hurdy-gurdy man stopped playing and I recalled that he had behaved in exactly the same way the last time we had come here. It would have been natural for Jones to make straight for the barber's shop – was that not

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Growing up, I'd never play goalie in street hockey or at shinny. I liked playing out. So the entire time I played goal, I liked handling the puck better than most.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

It's flattering to be linked to Barcelona: it means you're playing well.

I've got a lot of very fond memories playing football from the ages of four.

Every footballer wants to play. No one is happy when they are not playing.

Real are the best club in the world. Any footballer dreams about playing there, and I am no different.

When you're playing once and then not playing for six games, I don't care what any footballer says, you don't feel involved. You don't feel part of the team.

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

It still feels like I am just playing with my mates a lot of the time. A lot of us in the England team have grown up playing cricket together and formed very close friendships, which makes the dressing room a very enjoyable place to be.

I wanted to fulfill my dream of playing in the NFL.

I want to be able to function and that's the conversation that I'm having now more than ever - playing vs. functioning while I'm finished playing.

They were playing the music, minds, bodies, and souls stretched near to the limit, but it was also true that the music was playing them. A balancing act of excruciating fragility, but to Claude sweet beyond words, sweet beyond imagining.