Top 100 Play The Game 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. I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Jean Giraudoux
#3. When we play the game like we're supposed to play it, it is pretty easy. Making the extra pass, making the simple play, it's not about between your legs, behind your back, and all of that, it's just about scoring the bucket.
Karl Malone
#4. Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria.
Johannes Kepler
#5. I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
Wayne Rooney
#6. I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.
Vijay Singh
#7. I'm never going to be comfortable being squished into a box, and that's why it's been weird in Hollywood, they don't know what to do with me, because I can play the game up to a point, but then I can't at all.
Minnie Driver
#8. My help - it's not a light switch you can turn on and off. My help starts right now, and after this point you don't get to tell me that you don't want it anymore. Understand? You had a chance to walk away, Alice, and you didn't take it. Now it's time to play the game.
Elle Lothlorien
#9. At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it's to me it's extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that's still the craft of the DJ, I think.
A-Trak
#10. For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I have plenty of friends who get stalked by the paparazzi, but it's not anything you'd aspire to. Fame is like Frankenstein's monster - once you've created it, it can get out of control.
Robert B. Weide
#11. It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.
Grantland Rice
#12. To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game
Ken Follett
#13. 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
#14. I think video games are a huge part of our society now. Having kids play baseball video games helps them understand and love the game. It could actually push them to get out there and play the game for real. That's great for the sport.
Justin Verlander
#15. When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
Gary Player
#16. 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
#17. I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That I'm athletic, that I'm fast, and I'm relentless.
Jon Beason
#19. Playing baseball for pay - home run
Teaching kids to play the game - priceless
Jack Perconte
#20. Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.
Robert Anthony
#21. I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
John Buchan
#22. Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
Jennifer Beals
#23. We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize.
Renee Lawless
#24. It was different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. But the old wolf's dead and young one's gone south to play the game of thrones, and all that's left us is the ghosts.
George R R Martin
#25. I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. If I'm not shooting well, I'll try to be an asset in other ways-like defense, passing, rebounding, and hustle.
Rick Barry
#26. You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.
Tony Romo
#27. Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.
Patrick Rothfuss
#29. Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#30. In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of where I am, of who I am and where I'm going, has been swallowed by the dark. And I walk through the stars and sky ... a trinity of dreams beneath the moon.
Neil Gaiman
#31. By all means play the game of life, create new visions and have fun but do not identify yourself with your vision.
Christopher Dines
#32. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...
Martin Hopkins
#33. Sometimes the only way to win is not to play the game.
Anonymous
#34. We play the game of the adults, we play the game of the outside Dream, and we lose. We lose our innocence, we lose our freedom, we lose our happiness, and we lose our tendency to love.
Miguel Ruiz
#35. If you play for me, you play the game like you play life. You play it with pride, you play it with aggressively, and you play it as well as you possibly can.
Bill Martin
#36. I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and have some fun.
Patrick Kane
#37. I wouldn't play in Minnesota unless my career was at an end and I had to go to Minnesota to play the game.
Torii Hunter
#38. Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes
#39. I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.
Tiffeny Milbrett
#40. About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
Robert Fulghum
#41. You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.
Bernie Mac
#43. Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.
Tiger Woods
#44. His smile falls. "You also forgot 'Don't play the game unless you're one-hundred-percent commented.' Which really just means, if you don't love it, get out.
Kristen Callihan
#45. Practice like it's a game; play the game like it's practice.
Mike Candrea
#46. There's nothing wrong with an actor that can't improvise, but if you're going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people that can play the game.
Denis Leary
#48. It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
Winston Churchill
#49. It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.
Misbah-ul-Haq
#50. I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
Rafael Palmeiro
#52. I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.
Ryne Sandberg
#53. It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.
Prescott Bush
#54. It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.
Gloria Steinem
#55. If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.
Warren Gatland
#56. It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
Gaines Adams
#57. Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#58. Trust me, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules. And if you don't know the rules, someone's bound to get hurt.
L.J.Smith
#59. My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.
Tom Watson
#60. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
George R R Martin
#61. There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
William Shakespeare
#62. I think I'm drowning
Asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
That you've created
You're something beautiful
A contradiction
I wanna play the game
I want the friction
You will be the death of me
You will be the death of me
Muse
#63. It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.
Don Simpson
#64. Whilst men may play the game, women know the score.
Habeeb Akande
#65. I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions.
Bocafloja
#66. If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.
Joe Paterno
#67. Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. What is the first question we ask about a newborn baby?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#68. It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.
Eduardo Perez
#69. I know it's just a game. But so is life. And how we play the game has something to do with how we live our life.
Nick Cole
#70. Why do people want to know what I think? I like to play the game. I don't like to give opinions.
Manny Ramirez
#71. Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
Charlie Daniels
#72. I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.
Louis Oosthuizen
#73. Image of an image of an image ... But to record all the dips and upswings, in a sense falsifies them, and I start deluding myself and thinking all this is, or might be, real. Enough to play the game, or try to play it. A mistake to tally up the score.
Susan Sontag
#74. That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
Drew Bledsoe
#75. We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.
Jurgen Klinsmann
#76. The question wasn't when things had changed. It was this: When had he decided to simply accept society's rules, to play the game precisely as it had been laid out by those who already had power?
Courtney Milan
#77. A lot of players have told me they see me as a protector of my teammates, that, side by side, I'm there when something goes down, and I step up beside them and for them when things get nasty. I play the game hard, and I play it physical.
Ndamukong Suh
#78. I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.
Roberto Alomar
#79. I'm healthy and excited to play. And I think this year can be a big year for me if I get the opportunity. I can still play the game. I think I can help a team get to the Super Bowl.
Shaun Alexander
#80. It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#81. I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.
LeBron James
#82. People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game.
Michael Gough
#83. You play the game to the end. That's how it works; play to the end.
Stephen King
#84. If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.
Scott Ritter
#85. I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal
#86. Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.
Daniel Snyder
#87. I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.
Ben Roethlisberger
#88. Student-Athletes, Remember Play the Game, don't let the Game Play You.
Jeffrey A. Berk
#89. Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.
Gangaji
#90. Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true
J. Cole
#91. You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.
Judith McNaught
#92. Listen, that girl is my world, and I can't stand the thought of anyone hurting her. I'd handle this myself if I could play the game and be by her side at the same time, but I can't
J. Sterling
#93. There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
Laurie Anderson
#94. Play the game, never let the game play you.
Tupac Shakur
#96. You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game
Agatha Christie
#97. I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.
Russell Wilson
#98. You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.
Bryce Courtenay
#99. You win by cultivating the right culture, leadership, expectations, beliefs, mindset, relationships, and habits before you even play the game. You win in the locker room first. Then, you win on the field.
Jon Gordon
#100. You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game.
Matt Holliday
