Play Quotes · Page 172

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

— Edward Albee

If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships

— Zeljko Obradovic

I'll prove that I'm going to be the best tennis player, one day, to play this game.

— Bernard Tomic

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

— Wayne Gretzky

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

— Lupe Fiasco

I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

— Ornette Coleman

I think England is the best league for me, for my style of play.

— Phil Jones

It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

— Cam Gigandet

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I…

— Samantha Morton

I finish the game, and sometimes I don't play very well, and my grandmother calls up to ask why I haven't played…

— Bernardo Silva

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the…

— Joyce Cary

I tried playing for the public, and I selected music that I thought would be pleasing to them. Times are different now.…

— Vladimir Horowitz

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy…

— Walter Cronkite

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to…

— Diego Maradona

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to…

— Juliet Marillier

I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate…

— Amitabh Bachchan

It's always tough when you're off the ice for a while when you've got to come back because you can't replicate the…

— Connor McDavid

A lot of us players, if you were to ask them, feel like they have to play overseas. Why? 'Why not? Might…

— Sue Bird

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays?…

— Oscar Wilde

Players come to Belle Rock's casinos to have fun, find excitement, or play in a safe environment, but no matter what the…

— Tim Johnson

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important…

— Alan Dershowitz

Most teams have one All-Star, whether that guy made it this year or earlier in his career, and some teams have two…

— Ray Allen

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories,…

— Kate Bernheimer

Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.

— Jeff Fortenberry

I just knew I wanted to play basketball for as long as I could.

— Diana Taurasi

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I have to get better, but I can't change the way I play.

— Adrian Beltre

In the end, I want to play, play well, score and win.

— Timo Werner

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

— Fiona Apple

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

— Felicity Jones

It isn't often I get a part that enables me to play someone from the age of 13 up to 81.

— Prunella Scales

When the ball is swinging, you really need to play close to your body.

— Shikhar Dhawan

To play in the Premier League again would be amazing.

— Gareth Barry

Every footballer wants to play in big games, in front of full houses, live on the telly.

— James Maddison

Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

— Brom

Try to play me, and I'll make your blood flow faster than the old Jay-Z

— Lloyd Banks

It doesn't matter if you've got the best team in the world, you can't play rugby on your own try-line.

— James Haskell

I want to make it tough on the organization to not play me.

— Ryan Tannehill

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

— Robin Marantz Henig