Top 100 Quotes About Play Hard
#1. I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.
Tessa Jowell
#2. You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.
Herb Brooks
#3. Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs.
Barack Obama
#4. 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
#5. When I first came to NBC, I thought it was going to be swimming with the sharks, all men for themselves, be careful and all that. I have to tell you I learned that you can be kind and a hard worker and move up. You don't have to play dirty or do things that you think happens at big corporations.
Hoda Kotb
#6. I just try to go out and play as hard as I can and let the results take care of themselves.
Buster Posey
#7. Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
Stephen Sondheim
#8. It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
Jack Nicklaus
#9. To be an artist means to invite an occupation into your life that requires commitment and hard work, but the rewards and satisfaction you'll get make the work seem like play. But you have to do it every day.
Veronica Lawlor
#10. Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself ... I'm fascinated by the thought of being an actor, but it's too hard. And I think Shakespeare-which has been suggested to me-might be a bit of a stretch.
Tom Jones
#12. Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
Deirdre O'Kane
#13. I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.
Mark Teixeira
#14. All I can do is go out there and play hard and try and help my team win, and that's what I'm going to keep doing.
Brian Urlacher
#15. I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.
Saoirse Ronan
#16. It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.
Billy Kennedy
#17. Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.
Jim Thome
#18. 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
#19. Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.
Tom McCall
#20. People ask why I always play crazy people and free spirits. I guess it is because I like to have fun. But I am more ambitious than your average free spirit. This job is hard enough that, without drive and hard work, you will never make it work.
Lucy Punch
#21. I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
BD Wong
#22. I never do anything half-heartedly. I will continue to work hard and play hard and do everything I can to be successful, whatever I do.
David Beckham
#23. You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.
Karrie Webb
#24. 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
#25. TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
Christopher Meloni
#26. I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.
Ritchie Blackmore
#27. Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you're always in heels? Oh, my goodness!
Serinda Swan
#28. I don't have pressure on me. I just put pressure on myself to play hard every day.
Hanley Ramirez
#29. It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon.
Dick Vermeil
#30. Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.
Ann Miller
#31. I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures.
Chris Bosh
#32. I don't love him," Olivia snapped.
"Yes, you do," Chalton bit out. It was one thing to play hard to get or to take time to figure out feelings, but no way was she going to lie out loud to him. "It happens fast with vampires, so deal with it.
Rebecca Zanetti
#33. There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling.
Kimiko Glenn
#34. If you're with someone who enjoys having people play hard to get, maybe that's the way you're supposed to do it then.
Anne Hathaway
#35. 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
#36. Everyone in my life thinks I'm competitive because I want to win, but it comes from me wanting everyone to have a good time. And when I see that people aren't enthused, I try to make it really uncomfortable for everyone so they get enthused and want to play hard.
Christina Applegate
#37. It'll be just lovely for you to play
it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
Eleanor Porter
#38. I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.
Sigmund Freud
#39. There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
Ben Roethlisberger
#40. I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.
Jeremy Lin
#41. We didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didnt have too much room for error.
Chris Bosh
#42. And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes!
Ann Robinson
#44. I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.
Hunter Hayes
#45. I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that.
Robert Sheehan
#46. I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.
Yani Tseng
#47. Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'
Kenny Chesney
#48. David, for example, comes home from work and complains to Angela that his father isn't paying him enough, especially compared to his brother, Steve, who doesn't work very hard and frequently takes off from work to play golf.
Drew S. Mendoza
#49. If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.
Gerhard Richter
#50. I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.
Jeff Foxworthy
#51. It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.
Kim Gordon
#52. I've worked hard with my body, just in case someone needs me to play third or short. I'm happy to go back to short, it's my natural position. I'm here to help and here to do whatever the manager wants me to do.
Miguel Tejada
#53. Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils."
Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.
John Flanagan
#54. Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
Alan Alda
#55. Grammy would speak of lost things, old things, things we should remember when it is hard to love, when one should play.
Lisa O'Donnell
#56. All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into adulthood. Like dogs play fighting, you learn not to bite hard.
Christopher Bollen
#57. I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
Jim Abbott
#58. The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.
Adam Derek Scott
#59. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
Ray Bradbury
#60. I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.
Charlize Theron
#61. Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.
Thomas Jones
#62. Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets ...
Jimmy Buffett
#63. This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.
James Harden
#64. I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.
Angus Young
#65. Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.
Bryce Harper
#66. Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.
Agnieszka Radwanska
#67. I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone to beat me.
Serena Williams
#68. We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.
Arthur Laurents
#69. I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?
Jeffrey Hunter
#70. I try to play the stiff, as much as I can, and play it dry, which is sometimes hard for me. My problem with comedy is to want to clown it up, but she's the funny one. Those are her jokes, not mine. For me, it's a lot of not doing anything. I just don't want to muck it up.
John Cho
#71. I'm going to go out and play really hard. If I have another win, it will be icing on the cake. But I don't take anything for granted.
Vijay Singh
#72. Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
Kevin Hart
#73. That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.
Lleyton Hewitt
#75. You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.
Bill Belichick
#76. Even though Sachin is great, I have always found Rahul more solid and hard to get out. He has a solid defense and plays less shots than others. When a batsman plays less shots then it is tough to get him as he makes less mistakes.
Shoaib Akhtar
#77. Didn't your mother ever tell you," Rob asked, "that you're supposed to play hard to get?"
I looked at his lips. I probably don't need to tell you that they're really nice lips, kind of full and strong-looking.
"What," I wanted to know, "is that going to get me?
Meg Cabot
#78. Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.
Mike Krzyzewski
#79. We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.
Jason Williams
#80. I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
Zinedine Zidane
#81. For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.
Bent Larsen
#82. Maybe I'll leave you hard and aching for days, months, years. That's how long I've been hard for you. Turn about's fair play, dontcha think, Paul Guy? (from Finding Eden Excerpt)
Kele Moon
#83. 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
#84. I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.
Roger Daltrey
#85. I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.
Emo Philips
#86. I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.
Jessie J.
#87. I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
Andy Griffith
#88. I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.
Larry Gagosian
#89. I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.
Rio Ferdinand
#90. You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.
Greg Maddux
#91. We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.
Kurt Cobain
#92. He texts me on Wednesday and asks if I want to have dinner with him on Friday night. I say I have plans because I'm trying to play hard to get, which has absolutely never worked for me in my entire life. He
Jami Attenberg
#93. I thought I told you I didn't want to talk to you, Mr. Dresden."
"I like women who play hard to get.
Jim Butcher
#94. 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
#95. It's very hard to admit that the choice of 3D technology can play an important role for the director while he's thinking about the movie. But it does play a big role.
Fedor Bondarchuk
#96. I'm with Houston now. I just have to come in here and play hard and win games.
James Harden
#97. I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.
Jason Bateman
#98. 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
#99. Most people that do play nowadays hit really hard. It was good to get someone that hit really hard early on.
Serena Williams
#100. Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.
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