Play Quotes

I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.

I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.

Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team.

Charlton are a team who play well on the ball, but they found it hard to break us down, they didn't really have an out and out chance in front of our goal.

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.