Play By My Rules Quotes

#1. We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.

Robert Kraft

#2. Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that.

Brandon Jennings

#3. [Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

#4. The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

George Matthew Adams

#5. To get paid to play a game I love was enough for me, no matter what the rules were.

Dolph Schayes

#6. I would never do anything outside of the rules of play.

Tom Brady

#7. When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love.

Bryant McGill

#8. As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

Eliot Spitzer

#9. From this moment forward, we play by our own rules. Whatever it takes, whatever the cost. Our new mission begins now.

Lara Adrian

#10. Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.

Russell Crowe

#11. Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Billie Jean King

#12. My hope, of course, is that we won't have to play by these archaic rules forever and that eventually we can all just be ourselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

#13. My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

Elizabeth Warren

#14. I think of life as very much like a game. The one who created it gave us the rules by which it is to be played, rules designed to help us win, rules to help us be happy. The problem is many times we choose to play by our own rules, and then we're at a loss to understand why we never win.

Julie Lessman

#15. I thought I told you I don't play by the rules," I argue. "Ye're mistaken," he says. "Ye just walked into my world unbidden. So you will play by the rules, butterfly. You'll be playing by all my rules.

A. Zavarelli

#16. Ryan Baker sustained a penalty of play, and we withheld him from play today based on the rules violation.

Les Miles

#17. At some point we all play by the rules, whether it's the rules of all mankind, the rules of Father who is time, or the rules of nature who is Mother

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#18. By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

Grenville Kleiser

#19. When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

Harmony Korine

#20. I have no rules on drinking. In your young days, you can play strong even if you are not healthy. If they want to get drunk and smoke, they can, but not immediately after a match when the body is weak and vulnerable.

Felix Magath

#21. So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would you play by the rules? Who did? You did. You ...

Dave Matthews

#22. The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

Jermain Defoe

#23. If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#24. The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

Geraldine Ferraro

#25. My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Harold Ramis

#26. Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

Michel De Montaigne

#27. I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

Eugene Levy

#28. Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

Herschel Walker

#29. All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

Barbara Jordan

#30. I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

Rihanna

#31. I've learned there are givers and takers in this life. I've slowly let the takers go and I've had it for the better. God bless them, when they learn to play by the rules they are welcomed back, but my heart is worth protecting.

Donald Miller

#32. When you come into the industry as an outsider, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed. In Hollywood, it's very clear that you either play by the rules or make up your own. And I wanted to do it my way.

Will Packer

#33. But then I remembered that our hearts
didn't care about logic or time. My heart didn't play by rules that my mind made up. It didn't follow silly timelines or measure its feelings based on the number of days it had known someone. No, hearts simply felt, whether you wanted them to or not.

J. Sterling

#34. I'll give you what you want, Sloane," he said. "What we both want. But think long and hard before you come to me. There are things that I like. Things that I want and expect from the woman in my bed. And I don't play by anyone's rules but my own.

J. Kenner

#35. We may be young, but we're not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game.

Orson Scott Card

#36. I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.

Christina Baker Kline

#37. Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.

John Lahr

#38. It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

John Grisham

#39. I play by the rules even when there aren't any.

Stacy Kramer

#40. The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.

Iyanla Vanzant

#41. Men and women play the same game but with different rules.

Habeeb Akande

#42. Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

Bill Bryson

#43. If You Want To Play With Me, Let's Play.
But Remember One Thing There is No Rules in This Game!

Stephenie Meyer

#44. Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Michael Scott

#45. Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

Stephanie Cutter

#46. At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

Kari Matchett

#47. Give freely, love fully, and play with fervor! Don't put so many conditioned rules on your happiness. Life can be a beautiful experience if we allow it.

Steve Maraboli

#48. I like to play by my own rules.

Laila Ali

#49. The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

John Garamendi

#50. I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play and I'll always believe in that for as long as I'm playing.

Tom Brady

#51. It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.

Andrew Dost

#52. Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.

Kate Bornstein

#53. Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always a bit tough for me, but of course I had to, because the rules of tennis dont state that having a beautiful game is required to become No. 1.

Martina Hingis

#54. Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

John Cornyn

#55. I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.

Barack Obama

#56. I don't have to play by these rules or do these things ... I can actually have my own kind of version.

Billy Corgan

#57. Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

Phil Knight

#58. Demons don't play by the rules. They lie and they cheat and they stab in the back.

Alan Grant

#59. Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

Garry Kasparov

#60. The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.

Joyce Carol Oates

#61. I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.

Arnold Palmer

#62. I find others, those who prey on the innocent and do not play by the rules, and I make them go away in small, carefully wrapped pieces.

Jeff Lindsay

#63. You should always play with and not according to the rules, because a life with no danger in it is no life at all.

Nancy Huston

#64. I know it sounds silly, but it takes some time getting used to all the cameras in your face. I think it's like playing jazz. After I learn the rules, I can have fun and play a little bit.

Monica Raymund

#65. Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.

Pete Rose

#66. It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Beau Willimon