Best Play Quotes

#1. The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.

Vironika Tugaleva

#2. New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.

Landon Donovan

#3. I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

Donald Dunn

#4. Any idea how we're going to choose our best men?" Hunter asked drowsily. Roman chuckled and gently pulled free of Hunter's body before saying, "I get to play the brother card so I think that puts just you in the hot seat." Hunter

Sloane Kennedy

#5. Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both.

Allan Dare Pearce

#6. Hitting is mostly confidence. I just go out and play and that's the best you can ask for.

Pat Burrell

#7. It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Yani Tseng

#8. You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

Marcus Allen

#9. The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.

Keegan Bradley

#10. Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully she gives herself to every character she plays.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

#11. I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

Jarome Iginla

#12. People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Brian Eno

#13. The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

Jim Carrey

#14. Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.

Steven Hill

#15. Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.

John Kessel

#16. I had a really great time tonight. I got to eat great food, meet new people and even play on a stage with you. But you wanna know the best part of the whole night? It was when I got to pretend I was your boyfriend.

Marie Coulson

#17. Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play.

John Hurt

#18. When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

Viswanathan Anand

#19. I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

Andy Murray

#20. I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.

Gabriel Byrne

#21. Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.

Beth Hoffman

#22. And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Dweezil Zappa

#23. The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

Serena Williams

#24. There's always a sense of pride you take out on the field to play your best every night. Sometimes your best stinks.

Clint Hurdle

#25. If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

George Herbert

#26. My one big regret is that I didn't play on for 10 more years.

George Best

#27. I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

Billy Sheehan

#28. I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

Alan Ruck

#29. I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.

Paula Creamer

#30. I was shocked by the reaction I got for Bleak House. It was very intensive but one of the best jobs of my life. It was a chance to play a character that grows and develops and I was very enmeshed in it. But I didn't realise how stylish it was and how much people would love it.

Anna Maxwell Martin

#31. Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend. I just won't do that.

David Oyelowo

#32. If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.

Alec Baldwin

#33. I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.

Cheech Marin

#34. That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.

John McEnroe

#35. I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.

Nicole Ari Parker

#36. The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.

Doug TenNapel

#37. It's hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the chances that there's a character that I'm the best fit to play? It's really small!

Aziz Ansari

#38. What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

Thomas More

#39. My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs ... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is.

Shane Warne

#40. I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.

Mick Ralphs

#41. I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for ... the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#42. As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.

Stan Albeck

#43. It doesn't matter where Messi plays, if it's cold or hot, he always proves that he's the best.

Gerard Pique

#44. One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

Nancy Kerrigan

#45. A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. ... Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#46. We don't know what's going to happen this summer or who's going to be here next year. We have no control over any of that. So, we're going to play our [22 remaining] games and do the best we can and show up for the New York Knick fans. That's the most important thing.

Jalen Rose

#47. Rooney is one of the best players in the world and I love watching him play. But if you had to pick out only one, then for their history and for all that they have achieved it would have to be Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs. They are two shining examples for any player.

Andres Iniesta

#48. You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.

Lee Child

#49. For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play.

Thierry Henry

#50. I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings.

Anonymous

#51. when we choose the roles we want to play we want to portray our best self. PREPARE FOR THE ROLE YOU WANT, NOT THE ROLE YOU HAVE.

Sally Bennett

#52. Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#53. Some people would call me a workaholic. I don't consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it's my real hobby, OK? And, yeah, getting some play during working hours for which you are paid is the best job I can recommend for anyone around!

Andre Geim

#54. Fair warning, baby. I'm in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn't play fair or nice.--Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson

Naima Simone

#55. I feel like I've got the best job in the world. I just feel so fortunate to get paid to be a kid and play with my friends. So if it's rough or a little bit hot, you just have to deal with that.

Joel Kinnaman

#56. That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

Earl Scruggs

#57. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Wayne Rooney

#58. The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play?

Wynton Marsalis

#59. The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

Shane Warne

#60. The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Robert Baden-Powell

#61. I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys' best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.

Craig Lancaster

#62. All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

#63. If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.

David Henry Hwang

#64. To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.

Ruud Gullit

#65. I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.

Rain

#66. People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play.

Darell Hammond

#67. Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.

Hugh McCutcheon

#68. I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.

Robert Sean Leonard

#69. What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

Jerome Richardson

#70. Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.

Lionel Messi

#71. But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

Tom Robbins

#72. Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

Aldo Leopold

#73. Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele ... Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar.

Gary Lineker

#74. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Bill Watterson

#75. This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today ... But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

Hermann Hesse

#76. Walter Payton is still the best back ever to play the game.

Corey Dillon

#77. If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Oliver Kahn

#78. If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

Brit Marling

#79. We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?

Bud Wilkinson

#80. People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

Nomar Garciaparra

#81. The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.

Isak Dinesen

#82. As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.

Mark Sanchez

#83. A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.

Al Davis

#84. When you're out of options, the best option is to do nothing. Play dead. The possum option.

Rick Yancey

#85. You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.

Morgan Freeman

#86. Excellence in life, is like a play. For your real life play, the quality of the actors you bring on your life's stage, determine your success. Always choose the best, most excellent actors.

Mark LaMoure

#87. The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

May Swenson

#88. 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.

Knute Rockne

#89. You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

Jeff Van Gundy

#90. When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.

Andrea Bocelli

#91. You've got to be dedicated to train as hard as you can, for as long as you can, because in any sport, and especially this environment, there's a lot of contact. It's all about conditioning and good preparation to keep your body in the best condition possible to play games.

Filo Tiatia

#92. What I've learned along the way is that existence is cosmic theatre, but paradoxically, we should play our roles to the absolute best of our ability while having the wisdom not to take them too seriously.

Tom Robbins

#93. My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

Paul Shaffer

#94. I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

Metta World Peace

#95. The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

Jacques D'Amboise

#96. The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

Tony La Russa

#97. Here you play in the street, little chicken. Some day an automobile will run over you; and if it kills you, that will be the best thing that can happen. It may only break your leg or your wing. Then all of your life you will drag along in misery. Life is too hard for you, little bird.

John Steinbeck

#98. I'm just trying to play my best and have fun.

Miguel Cabrera

#99. I use Herbalife products on and off the field for energy and focus. That way I can play my best game

Lionel Messi

#100. Play the music that best describes you
Make the music that comes from your Heart.

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