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Quotes About Playing

What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's all the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I began a new career studying the psychology of stress and the psychology of success. My mission was to learn all I could about playing under pressure. I wanted to find out why, under pressure, some athletes break through, as Hamilton did, while others break down.
~ Gary Mack
Any music fan could get to know a song on a favorite 45, a bigger fan might risk playing the B-side.
~ Brett Milano
Patterned, repetitive, rhythmic activity makes the overactive and overly reactive core regulatory networks (see Figure 2) get back "in balance." Music falls into this category—both playing and listening.
~ Bruce D. Perry
Many children are nowayears too lazy even to do their own playing.
~ burgess gelett iii
Betting against the point spread is a relatively mechanical trip, but betting against another individual can be very complex, if you're serious about it—because you want to know, for starters, whether you're betting against a fool or a wizard, or maybe against somebody who's just playing the fool.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that.
~ Kirby Smart
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
~ Marianne Williamson
I do a lot of video games - I have a YouTube channel where I record me playing video games with my friends and post it. That's a hobby I have and a lot of what I do in my off time.
~ Chandler Riggs
I like being out on the cricket field and performing and playing in front of a crowd. I find it quite tricky when there are press photographers outside my house. It's all very bizarre.
~ Andrew Flintoff
Playing for the troops is always an honor and seriously humbling.
~ Ivan Moody
My ambition is to win some trophies. That's why I am playing football.
~ Olivier Giroud
Everyone's dream, growing up, is seeing themselves in an away kit somewhere in a sunny country. But, in reality, I'm happy to be playing for Liverpool and trying to win trophies.
~ Raheem Sterling
There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.
~ Leo Kottke
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
~ Venus Williams
But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.
~ Jimmy Page
It's one of the things that makes it enjoyable to keep playing; you have to approach each set differently and make some balance between what you want to do and what seems right.
~ Ira Kaplan
Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
~ Ed Royce
The cellist confuses her. She doesn't know what he hopes to achieve with his playing. He can't believe he will stop the war. He can't believe he will save lives. Perhaps he has gone insane,
~ Steven Galloway
I stayed up one night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
~ Steven Wright
I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
~ Steven Wright
Meggie had the distinct impression that Tamara was playing with words, almost as if she was initating this argument purely for the sake of it.
~ Storm Constantine
Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.
~ Pete Wentz
It was just a normal family. We were playing basketball, we were playing soccer. It was home-cooked meals, just peaceful and happy times.
~ Enes Kanter