Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is a lot better than playing out in the streets. It's structured, but they get the freedom.

This is a lot better score for these guys. They played a lot better I thought this time.

This is a long year and we've got a long way to go. We have to get a lot better in the snap. We played hard, we just didn't play smart. We got tackled and we made a lot of mistakes.

All in all, to get 16 players in, and getting a win, that's a positive.

All I can tell you is he will not be playing today.

Mose Allison

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

Philip Roth

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself — a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

Philip Roth

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Peyton Manning

I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.

Peyton Manning

Im happy to volunteer for the American Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet. The Red Cross is an organization that responds to those in need and it is an honor to help them with the lifesaving role they play everyday in communities nationwide.

Peyton Manning

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

Peter Drucker

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Peter Baker

President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.

Penelope Wilton

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

Penn Jillette

Every poker player is smarter than me.

Pee Wee Reese

I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.

Pee Wee Reese

If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.

Paulo Coelho

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Mariska Hargitay

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

Maria Sharapova

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

Maria Sharapova

Physically, I have to get a lot better, ... I have to play these three setters and the points are going to go on and on. This is not something that is going to happen overnight. I am only 18 and this is going to take time. My body is still growing and I'm still adjusting to my own body.

Maria Sharapova

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

Maria Sharapova

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Maria Sharapova

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

Maria Sharapova

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

Meat Loaf

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

Max Roach

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through,

Max Lucado

God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.

Max Hastings

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

Max Euwe

Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.