How To Play Quotes

#1. Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.

Kobe Bryant

#2. The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

Shirley Maclaine

#3. For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

Eric Alterman

#4. What if instead of reading, you wrote? Instead of watching TV, you made videos? Instead of listening to music, you learned how to play guitar?

Paul Jarvis

#5. That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.

Greg Norman

#6. All you can do is play how you know how to play.

Clint Dempsey

#7. They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.

Jens Lehmann

#8. When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

Dierks Bentley

#9. I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

Minnie Driver

#10. Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

Pat Metheny

#11. Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

Tricia Helfer

#12. I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

Alex Rocco

#13. I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

Tiger Woods

#14. It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

#15. I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

Christian Bale

#16. I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.

LeBron James

#17. I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.

Sergio Aguero

#18. I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.

Jim Abbott

#19. It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.

Billy Corgan

#20. Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, 'The guitarist is sick and couldn't make it ... does anybody know how to play all the songs?' That was always my little dream. It was a massively inspiring thing to be in a space with live shows.

James Bay

#21. In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Billy Joel

#22. I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to learn how to play the trumpet and the saxophone. That's what I'm learning how to play.

Mac Miller

#23. A lot of players know how to play the game, but they really don't know how to play the game, if you know what I mean. They can put the ball in the hoop, but I see things before they even happen. You know how a guy can make his team so much better? That's one thing I learned from watching Jordan.

LeBron James

#24. I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong.

Seungri

#25. It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#26. Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.

J. Ruth Gendler

#27. The vast majority of sportsmen are left with little choice as regards how to play, serfs to their talent, but the very best are able to do so as they want, impressing personality upon ability.

Daniel Harris

#28. In high school, I used to teach guitar and fix computers by the hour. I was looking for some way to make some cash, so I actually learned how to play guitar in order to try to teach it.

Jon Oringer

#29. I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

Cassandra Peterson

#30. My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

Noah Gray-Cabey

#31. I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

Stephen Stills

#32. It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.

Gail Zappa

#33. It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. We have a high ceiling. We're still young. We're still learning coach's system and we're still learning how to play hard every night. I think that's been a bad habit of ours the last few years. It's a habit that's hard to shake, too. I think if we keep pushing, we'll be alright this season.

Andrew Bogut

#35. There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's eyes. So they're completely available for whatever happens. And those are actors who tend to avoid getting into patterns.

Anthony Heald

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#37. You get a feeling about things, and if you trust yourself, which I've grown to do, I felt like I had a pretty good indication of how to play the role.

Brian Geraghty

#38. I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.

Tyler Hoechlin

#39. When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Vinessa Shaw

#40. The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Lady Gaga

#41. I learned he knows how to play my body. I cum when he wants me to, be it in seconds, minutes, or even hours.

Alexa Riley

#42. So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

Steve Spurrier

#43. You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

Diane Chamberlain

#44. The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Brittany Howard

#45. I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

Joanna Newsom

#46. I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

Joan Jett

#47. I'm like a poker player, bluffing with whatever cards equal a really shitty hand. I should mention that I have no fucking idea how to play poker. "You

Matthew Norman

#48. In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows
how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played.
There's no one out there like Gretchen.

Wayne Shorter

#49. I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

Jarvis Cocker

#50. On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.

Kirk Hammett

#51. Jesper: "If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I'm going to get Wylan's ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost."
Kaz: "I'll just hire Matthias' ghost to kick your ghost's ass."
Matthias: "My ghost won't associate with your ghost.

Leigh Bardugo

#52. The body and the soul know how to play
In that dark world where gods have lost their way.

Theodore Roethke

#53. The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

Neil Peart

#54. It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.

D.A. Wallach

#55. I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

James Vincent McMorrow

#56. I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Jules Shear

#57. She is playing games with someone who knows how to play them better.

Tarryn Fisher

#58. When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

Shaquille O'Neal

#59. I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#60. It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

Holly Black

#61. I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

Justin Broadrick

#62. I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

Herbie Mann

#63. Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Moby

#64. You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

Stanley Clarke

#65. Don't be lazy. Learn your instrument and the kids should be learning that stuff. We have to get back to the musicianship of the music. It's called music, so at some point somebody has to learn how to play an instrument.

Warryn Campbell

#66. I learned how to play the music working with my dad. Because in the beginning I was super excited, I had this gig, I was a kid, I got cocky and didn't want to take lessons.

Eric Hernandez

#67. We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

Jose Gonzalez

#68. I only know how to play one role: me.

Karl Lagerfeld

#69. When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

Laird Hamilton

#70. How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Confucius

#71. If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.

David Walton

#72. I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

Lee Trevino

#73. When you get the role, it's 'cause you know exactly how to play it, and they know that the way you're playing it is exactly what they want. I never go with a role and say that I need to change anything about it. Otherwise, I wouldn't take it.

Melissa George

#74. I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

Alber Elbaz

#75. When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

Steve Burns

#76. If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.

Joan Jett

#77. It's fun to play somebody who has no boundaries or rules. There's no book you can read on how to play a witch, so you just create a version. It's really great!

Mila Kunis

#78. When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.

Johnny Depp

#79. Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.

Marcus Giles

#80. When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them.

Kostya Tszyu

#81. Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

Henry Garza

#82. I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.

Ellar Coltrane

#83. Everybody else seemed to know how to play this game. It was like they had their games all chosen for them. Those fucks seemed to have some cheat sheet built right into their brains that had all the rules and tips and clues to these games spelled out on them.

Andersen Prunty

#84. Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Candace Bushnell

#85. The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

Chris Moneymaker

#86. When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.

M. Ward

#87. I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#88. A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano
and dumb.

Marilyn Monroe

#89. You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.

Mike Joyce

#90. Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with acting.

Alan Arkin

#91. When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

Ryne Sandberg

#92. When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Richard Burton

#93. Love. Love wasn't sweet and light, it was visceral and overpowering. Love wasn't patient, love wasn't kind. Love was ferocious, love knew how to play dirty.

Kate Atkinson

#94. When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

#95. There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

Jason Reeves

#96. I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

Sachin Tendulkar

#97. 'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Louis Sachar

#98. My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.

Jason Aldean

#99. I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Lou Reed

#100. We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.

Carmelo Anthony