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Play Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into…
- Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.
- After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver,…
- To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the…
- If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid…
- On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are…
- It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with…
- I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this…
- If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of…
- When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
- In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a…
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