Play Quotes - Page 27

• The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game.

  Mary Hart

  Stars, Games, Handle

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• So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

  Trevor Nunn

  Song, Careers, Musical

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• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  Victor Garber

  Character, Phones, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.

  Pope Paul VI

  Wisdom, Strong, Successful

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1980*). “On the development of peoples”

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• In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Running, Fun

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.

  Jacques Plante

  Stupid, Thinking, Nhl

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• Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

  David Guterson

  Who I Am, Together, Roles

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• If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Fun, Pain

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• What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

  Edward Bond

  Trying, Literature, Problem

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• If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

  Marjoe Gortner

  Games, Atheism, Bigs

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• Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.

  Billy Graham

  Atheism, Looks, Want

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• Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am neither benefactor nor philosopher, but just a human being, and my charities are the pleasantest expense I have on these journeys.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Journey, Say Anything, Atheism

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• We can't score goals, we can't stop goals, we aren't hitting, we can't play on special teams... we all stink. We can try to improve but to do so we will need to make trades. And who would want our players that are underachieving?

  Ted Leonsis

  Team, Hockey, Player

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• We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

  Terry Crisp

  Funny, Team, Stupid

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• Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Men, Games

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• I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Way

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• I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Pride, Four

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• He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Years, Used

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• Casey didn't easily forgive a guy who got doubled up on a hit-and-run play. He didn't see any reason why the runner couldn't take a quick glance back toward the plate to make sure the ball was hit safely.

  Mickey Mantle

  Running, Baseball, Guy

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• He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Said

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• I'm not a young jitterbug anymore. When I was a young jitterbug, I never won. I didn't start winning until I got older. The older I get, the wiser I get. You just have to play it smart.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Smart, Winning

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• Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Panic

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• I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Athlete

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Mistake, Athlete

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