Quotes About Patience

Even when I eat, I'll eat my salad first and sort of work around the plate.

When the Beatles first came out, you had to go to a certain amount of trouble to have long hair. You just couldn't have it immediately. Anything you can just go out and get - like platform shoes - is not going to inspire people as much as something they have to go through a little bit of hell to have.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

Of course, when you play football yourself you can think you want to become a manager but it does not make you a good manager.

I play golf - badly.

I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

When you - when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn't know before.

I'm a big archery person. I grew up shooting bows. Some people play golf, I do this.

They say some people are born with the ability to play golf. I wasn't.

I play golf but very badly.

That's why I like to play golf, because I'm terrible at it and it's so difficult.

I've been through seasons where I've not played a lot of games, and its been difficult due to injuries and stuff like that.

I'm not a player who's going to come out and hit you off the court. But I can chip away at people.

As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.

I'm gonna have some nights when it's not gonna come. But if you keep playing natural, it's just gonna come. I'm gonna keep getting better, keep getting better, and one day, everything's gonna pay off.

When I'm playing bad, I need to just hit the green.

I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross.

You don't talk playoffs a few weeks before training camp.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

The big plays will come.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.