Playing Quotes

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

I think that my career speaks for itself and shows the type of player I am. I have never had a teammate who didn't enjoy playing with me. There are always going to be skeptics, but chemistry will definitely not be an issue.