Playing Quotes

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

I want to keep playing good golf.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them.

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had such heartfelt, loving fans.

It's hard to encapsulate my inspiration because there are so many different looks, but I think it's just like, sexy girl you see walking down the street in a cool outfit. A lot of eyelet, a lot of leather, playing with the hard and the soft, the good and bad inside of us all.