It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Don't worry, Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team. (to Alan Ball, who'd just signed for Everton)

Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.

There are some actors who can only play themselves, but good actors must really be separated from the people they play.

I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.

Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

If you're the play-by-play announcer, I think it's your job to be better than just saying what's on people's TV screen.

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'

And I know I’m about to play second fiddle to another woman, as I should. But my love for you will never change, Maxon.

I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.

It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me.

If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

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