Quotes About Playing

If it's bathos you want - and I suspect we are all bathos junkies in the end - nothing gives it to you quite like watching sport. Unless it's playing sport.

Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion?

When I started playing in Sweden, there was nobody watching. No one knew who I was, so I was just playing for the love of the game. And after my first season, my coach came up to me and said, 'Of all the people you're the one who smiles the most on the field,' and that was the biggest compliment I ever received.

In concertos, I stand up, and I conduct with the bow when I'm not playing. During symphonies, I sit, but sometimes I stop playing to conduct. Being seated in a section allows me to feel more like we're playing chamber music, which is how I like to approach it.

I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

The evening traffic was out playing tag, and it took long enough to get to West Thirty-fifth Street.

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

And S. I. Hayakawa, multiplex stringman. I'd tell you not to fret but that would spoil your playing." Freddie cackled merrily at his pun, then pointed his plastic weapon at the gross musician who joined feebly in the

I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.

Language gets learned in the context of interaction—in the context of eating and playing and asking for the names of things, not passively looking at a computer monitor. And that's

One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Very true, but then a lot of the confessions were voluntary." "So who would volunteer such things?" "Doubtless people who were mentally disturbed." "Ah, another reliable source!" "Oh, well, you're probably right about that too, Lieutenant. I'm just playing devil's advocate." "You do it so well." "Look, one thing that

But I'm telling you. I swear, music. I get home, and it's the music again. Every night I hear it playing. I don't know what to do about it. - Have you tried dancing to it?

As a guitarist, though much of the world didn't know it, since the Beatles' album credits rarely mentioned who played the solos, he contributed some of band's most virtuosic playing, including the stinging solo on lead guitarist George Harrison's 'Taxman.

I heard someone's playing hooky,' Zach told me. He smiled. Standing there, it felt almost like nothing bad had ever happened- or would ever happen again 'There's a boy in my life,' I told him. 'He's a very bad influence.' Then Zach nodded. 'Bad boys have a way of doing that. But they're worth it.

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask?

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

I didn't train with a mask. There's no way they will be able to make everybody wear masks once they're playing and training flat out. It's impossible.