800 Inspiring You Played Me Quotes: Don't Play Games
1. “I’m probably the worst at games. I don’t really like computer games either. And when I lose, I won’t go again but just say I don’t want to play anymore.” — Yoseob
2. Never thought I'd live ter see the Triwizard Tournament played again! - Author: J.K. Rowling
3. I played Little League in junior high and high school. - Author: Jerry Spinelli
4. “Don’t play with me, I’m more than what I show, and much more then what you sow.”
5. I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that. - Author: Geoff Zanelli
6. “Life isn’t a music player where you choose what’s being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy what’s being played.” ― Zayn Malik
7. People have very strong opinions about how their national icons should be played. - Author: Naomie Harris
8. “It damn hurts getting played while being loyal.”
9. The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life. - Author: John Houseman
10. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.” — Tony Hsieh
11. How could anybody not find a woman who played tag with her pet duck attractive? - Author: Jan Pol
12. You don't seem the type to endorse the obscure dictates of polite society," she noted, thinking that he only played at being a gentlemen. There was something rather rebellious about him. - Author: Elizabeth Cole
13. A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one. - Author: Jeffrey Fry
14. “It’s really simple. I don’t play games, and I’m not afraid to say it. If you’re going to be involved in this project, you’ll have to be honest and upfront. No excuses. No apologies.” — unknown
15. Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs. - Author: Gerry Mulligan
16. I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career. - Author: Blake Mycoskie
17. I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world. - Author: Jane Fonda
18. “I’m not playing your games. You were wrong.” I crossed my arms over my chest. “You want to know what I’ve learned? I don’t win by playing your games. I win by making you play mine.” — Penelope Douglas
19. Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader. - Author: Carrie Underwood
20. “Don’t play victim to circumstances you created.”
21. The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing. - Author: Paul Ince
22. “I hate that aesthetic game of the eyes and the mind, played by these mandarins who “appreciate” beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There’s no such thing. I never “appreciate,” any more than I “like.” I love it, or I hate.” — Pablo Picasso
23. “Be proud of your heart. Through the pain and suffering, and through all the times it’s been played on, stepped on, it still manages to stay strong to keep you alive.”
24. “It’s all fun and games, until you’re the one being played.” ― Sean Vincent Tan Perol
25. “Your feelings get played, you don’t stop there, you go on to play with other’s feelings. They hurt you and you on to hurt another. They are being a total *ss to you and there you are being an *ss to somebody else. Shackled in this ruthless food chain, of eating somebody out, and you being eaten up by someone else. Karma sure is freaking here at play.” ― R. Krech
26. “Don’t play games with me, coz I think I can play better than you.” – Anonymous
27. Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage. - Author: Lydia Leonard
28. My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do. - Author: Don McLean
29. “The biggest suspense of life you never know that whose praying for you and whose playing with you.”
30. “Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don’t you? Just tell me so I can get over you.” — Kirsten Dunst
31. “I am like fire; if you take care of me I’ll brighten your life, but if you play with me you’ll burn.” ― Abhishek Tiwari
32. “Don’t play the ignoring game with me because I don’t lose.” — unknown
33. My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get their take on how I played. - Author: Vince Carter
34. “I’m too old for mind games, too tired to pretend, and too wise for lies. So don’t play games with me.” — unknown
35. “I didn’t like the way the game was being played.” ― Mario Lemieux
36. “My emotions aren’t toys don’t play with them, and I’m not a game so don’t play me.” ― Nishan Panwar
37. “Treat me like a human, and I’ll treat you like a king. Treat me like a game and I’ll show you how it’s played.”
38. ”It’s over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don’t play with me. Seriously, don’t play with me.” — Shaquille O’Neal
39. “The challenge is not to be perfect … it’s to be whole.” — Jane Fonda
40. “When I step onto the court, I don’t have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer, and I can come up with a better solution. It’s like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.” — Michael Jordan
41. “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.” — Leo Buscaglia
42. “Don’t play with me. You’ve only seen the pleasant sight of this game, believe me! You can’t handle the worst!” — unknown
43. I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever. - Author: Ralph Kiner
44. It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully. - Author: Nan Aron
45. “Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.” — Zayn Malik
46. “Good news is I’m smiling. The bad news is it’s the kind of smile that you should fear.” — unknown
47. My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun! - Author: Denzel Washington
48. “I actually don’t play any new video games except ‘Call of Duty.’ I’m addicted to ‘Call of Duty.’ It’s the only game I need.” — Deron Williams
49. “Being single gets old, but so does getting played…”
50. As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. - Author: Ralph Adams Cram
51. Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience. - Author: Paul Horn
52. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined. - Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
53. “I would never censor something to please someone. I don’t play games.” — Joyce Tenneson
54. “Been there done that a while back. I know when game is being played.”
55. The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders. - Author: Jim Otto
56. “I don’t play games. I ran away from home because my Dad bought me an Xbox.” — Adrien Broner
57. “It’s so easy to believe someone when they’re telling you exactly what you want to hear.”
58. Up to 700 A.D., it was assumed that the Christian family cared for their own dead. The clergy played little role in burial and none whatsoever in the arrangement and decoration of tombs. - Author: Peter R.L. Brown
59. “I don’t enjoy other people’s dramas, and I don’t enjoy mine.” — Ali MacGraw
60. I was really so excited when it came back on air and I saw all three of the actors who played 'Doctor Who' in the new version and they've all been absolutely brilliant in their own special way, as all the Doctors always are. - Author: Sophie Aldred
61. “I don’t play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won’t gamble with me. That’s why you can’t watch football. Everybody’s gambling. They don’t want to watch the game; they watch the spread.” — Jack Nicholson
62. It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat. - Author: Artie Shaw
63. “I think we’re being played for a bunch of s*ckers,..Chumps.” ― Jim Talent
64. “My heart is not a playground, go play somewhere else.”
65. “My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you’re competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don’t let them out-work you.” — Tim Hudson
66. “Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it.”
67. It's for sure that nobody wants to be played from somebody out son logically bets are something from paradox world.
68. “Treat me like a human, and I’ll treat you like a king. Treat me like a game, and I’ll show you how it’s played.” — unknown
69. “Men like women who are fun to be around, who are kind, intelligent, honest, and who don’t play games.” — Jeanne Phillips
70. “Your heart isn’t plastic, and it isn’t a toy, but if you want it to be played with and broken give it to a girl.”
71. “R.I.P to everyone who: screwed me over, played me, tried me or lied to me, because you’re all dead to me.” ― Ritu Ghatourey
72. “I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living.” — Richard Branson
73. “Mind games do not make me believe you are mysterious or interesting. Mind games do make me believe you are a waste of my energy, and a waste of my time. ”
74. “Users can’t use you, UNLESS you’re giving them something to use.” ― Sonya Parker
75. Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.' - Author: Dennis Hull
76. “The only games that should be played in a relationship are in the bedroom.”
77. “I don’t walk into a room with an authoritative stance. I tend to be a little more submissive, even though I think I have a certain amount of strength. So, it’s tough for me to play authority without feeling uncomfortable.” — Kristin Kreuk
78. My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs. - Author: Josephine De La Baume
79. “Don’t waste my time by playing games, and I won’t waste yours. Let me know if you’re serious about doing business, and we can talk.” — unknown
80. “It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played-all over the world- if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a pawn, if only I might join- though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.” ― Lewis Carroll
81. “Common mind games often used to manipulate you. Gaslighting, negative humor, projection, pretend ignorance, guilt tripping, victimhood, silent treatment, constant criticism, and tantrum throwing.”
82. I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment. - Author: Barney Frank
83. I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me. - Author: William Sanderson
84. “One cannot have “success” in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I’d have become a lawyer.” — Cate Marvin
85. “People these days find emotions as the best toy to play with!!”
86. “Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it’s special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.” ― Roger Glover
87. I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions. - Author: John Noble
88. When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me. - Author: Patty Griffin
89. “Don’t play games with me. I’m silent, but don’t give me the reason to let me show my wild side.” — unknown
90. I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast. - Author: Michael Imperioli
91. I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested. - Author: Reese Witherspoon
92. The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get. - Author: Douglas Booth
93. “This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.” ― John Doolittle
94. All rights reserved.
95. “Do not play mind games. That is how you will lose someone fast and hard. If you mess with their mind, you will never have their heart.” — Madalyn Beck
96. “I was stupid of being played by him which is still okay to me… But I hate myself for playing with ownself forgiving him each and every time.” ― Prerona Goswami
97. “Even if you say you “don’t play games,” that is a type of game – it is the “I don’t play games” game.” — Aziz Ansari
98. I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched. - Author: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
99. Vanity and prejudice have as usual played havoc with the truth, and Mr. Topper's reputation has been tossed into a furnace of frantically wagging tongues. The - Author: Thorne Smith
100. I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.' - Author: Caitriona Balfe
101. I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out. - Author: Annie Dillard
102. “You shouldn’t have to beg someone to care about you, that’s not how love works.”
103. I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson. - Author: Hannah Simone
104. “A guitar riff played on a piano doesn’t come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but i faked it enough to get by.” ― Barry Mann
105. “Mind games do not make me believe you are mysterious or interesting. Mind games do make me believe you are a waste of my energy, and a waste of my time. ” — unknown
106. I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending. - Author: Virat Kohli
107. ”I don’t want to just play the same thing. But with The Red Road, no one has ever seen me like that. No one really even knows that I smile, have a personality, and have a sense of humor.” — Jason Momoa
108. Look at us. A line of symmetry. Two halves of a whole. Two peas in a pod. A pair of queens. Though your card, I must observe, has aged better than mine, which has been played too often. - Author: Erika Robuck
109. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exists and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
110. When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite. - Author: Sid Luckman
111. I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life. - Author: Sammy Hagar
112. “I love people who are direct. You know where they stand and they don’t play games.”
113. Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented tuxedos. We trashed the party, took a bunch of girls and champagne in limos underneath the Eiffel Tower, and set up an acoustic show. It was like a Hilary Duff movie. - Author: Conrad Sewell
114. I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I've played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also. - Author: Michel Martelly
115. “I am not a game. Don’ play with me. Don’ mess with my head or you’ll see I can do better than you.”
116. To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. - Author: George Orwell
117. The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I played football. This is almost like I'm coming back out of retirement. It will be fun to see myself in the game. - Author: Jerry Rice
118. When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He sees not what you lost or won, but how you played the game! - Author: A.A. Khan
119. “Don’t play with me, I’m not the game where you’ll end up happily.” — unknown
120. As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed. - Author: Helen Clark
121. To me, it didn't matter where I played, I just wanted to play well. - Author: Ronnie Lott
122. “I do not play games. There is no time for that. When I get through with work, I don’t want anything that requires the working of the mind.” — Albert Einstein
123. “Don’t play that game with me, Acheron. Tell me what I need to know! (Xypher) Nice tone. We should rent you out to record Halloween albums. (Acheron)” — Sherrilyn Kenyon
124. “You’ll get the straight facts from me, no chaser. Some people have a problem with that, but I don’t have time for games.” — unknown
125. “It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.” — Triple H
126. It was a ridiculous question. Did I _love_ Char? Did I feel about Char the same way I feel about the Beatles, string instruments in pop songs, the way Little Anthony sang high notes, the way Jerry Lee Lewis played piano? - Author: Leila Sales
127. I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard, I've played point guard all my life. Personally, I feel the best point guards make other players look better and create their own shot. I fit in that category. - Author: Chauncey Billups
128. “Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games, or pop psychology. It is an act of faith in the God of grace.” — Brennan Manning
129. The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check. - Author: Bob Weir
130. As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!. - Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
131. “Don’t play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I’m the Doctor, and you’re in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.” — Steven Moffat
132. “Never play with the feelings of others. Because you may win the game but you’ll surely loose the person for a lifetime.”
133. There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night. - Author: Jorge Posada
134. “Eve, it’s my fondest wish to do just that.” — J.D. Robb
135. Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral. - Author: George Vecsey
136. Remember that thing I alluded to on the plane?" he asked, eyes glued to her. A tiny smile played at her lips. Jog my memory, Player Will. He squeezed his eyes closed, took a deep breath before looking back at her, and said, "Marry me? - Author: Christina Lauren
137. My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving. - Author: Angela Bassett
138. I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while. - Author: Martin Milner
139. “Don’t ever play with someone’s feelings. You could win the game, but you could lose that person forever.” — Frank Ocean
140. “Talk to the guys that ain’t doing nothing, don’t talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.” — Shaquille O’Neal
141. “The worst feeling is feeling unwanted by the person you want the most.”
142. “Don’t play with me, you’ve only seen the pleasant sight of this game, believe me! You can’t handle the worst!”
143. “Even a good player will someday become a toy of a better player. It’s called karma.”
144. “Say what you want, but don’t play games with my affection. Take what you need, but don’t leave me with no direction.”
145. “I’m very simple. I don’t play games, and I cut off for good those who try to play them.” — Kirsten Hill
146. 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. - Author: Tom Brady
147. “We go out and work hard. We play this game with emotion and love. Coach always says, ‘Emotionally, physically, mentally – come to the field prepared.’ Because if you don’t bring that to the field, you’re going to get beat.” — Laura Berg
148. “Do what you really want to do. Don’t play their game! Don’t do what they want. Find your own way.” — Johnny Depp
149. I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously. - Author: Kevin James
150. “Be real with me, or just leave me alone.”
151. Where I come from, all of us wanted to be footballers. We played all the time; that's all we did at school or wherever until it went dark and you couldn't see the ball. - Author: Sean Bean
152. “I am not a game. Don’t play with me. Don’t mess with my head, or you’ll see I can do better than you.” — Alexis
153. “Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.”
154. “One day she’ll start sending you mixed signals,and you’ll get mad because she finally learned how to play your game.”
155. ”I don’t just play the trumpet because it’s something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it’s a means to help free a lot of people that ain’t free.” — Christian Scott
156. “The biggest sign that you’re getting played is that they act very interested in you, but they don’t want to be with you.” ― Sonya Parker
157. And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. - Author: Edward FitzGerald
158. “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
159. ”When I’m on stage, the songs that we’ve chosen to play from the back catalog are things that still resonate with me and matter to me. And the songs that I couldn’t be a part of, we don’t play anymore.” — Trent Reznor
160. “I say what I mean and mean what I say. It doesn’t go over well with everyone, but it saves time. I don’t have time for games.” — unknown
161. “Do a favor for me, please. Take a selfie. Then send it to me. I am playing cards, and I’m missing a joker.” — unknown
162. If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page. - Author: Marla Maples
163. “I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, stabbed, cheated, burned and broken, but somehow it still works.”
164. “Game over. I’m sick of these games. I don’t want to play games with anyone anymore. I’m done with all that.” — unknown
165. “I am a tambourine. Don’t put me aside Till the fast dancing starts. Play me some all along. Help me with these little sounds.” — Rumi
166. I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns. - Author: John Tesh
167. “Don’t play with me, I’m not a game to be played by kids. You better prefer upgrading yourself.”
168. Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative. - Author: Susie Orbach
169. From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night. - Author: Lionel Messi
170. I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.' - Author: Miley Cyrus
171. “You are trying to take my mind off the coming announcement, and I appreciate it, but all that alphabet soup stuff confuses me. You do realize that I am a very natural blonde, don’t you?” “You don’t get to play that blondie card with me, darlin’. I already know how smart you are.” — Carolyn Brown
172. “A person’s feelings aren’t your personal games, so stop playing with them.”
173. “Be aware of when you are being played. Be even more aware of when they’re done playing the game you’re so desperately trying to win.”
174. “If you feel that you are being played, you probably are.” ― Leroy Jethro Gibbs
175. “If I have to chase and fight for your attention, eventually, I won’t want it anymore.” — Will Smith
176. “You don’t get to choose. If you know you’re being played. If you know you’re being used. If you know you’re being an option. Choose the deserve instead of the best.” ― Zinnia
177. “The truth is, I’m pretty tired of people pretending to be something they are not. Games won’t get us anywhere.” — unknown
178. “I hate games. If you are not going to marry me, then let us go our separate ways. Why should you toy with my heart and down the line you drop me.” — unknown
179. “Even a good player will someday become a better player. It’s called karma.” — unknown
180. “Something is being played, toys or feelings. Something is being broken, mirror or heart. Something is being changed, weather or me.” ― Shruti
181. “Daisy, you’re too damned innocent to understand the danger you’re in. It’s taking all the self-control I’ve got to keep my hands off you. Don’t play games with me, sweetheart. It’s too easy for you to torture me, and I’m at my limit.” — Lisa Kleypas
182. I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah. - Author: Luke Donald
183. I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar. - Author: Dhani Harrison
184. “I’m too old for mind games, too tired to pretend, and too wise for lies. So don’t play games with me.”
185. “If you have the opportunity to play this game of life, you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.” — Kanye West
186. “Don’t play with me, I’m the game no one ever understood.”
187. “I prefer to have honest enemies rather than having fake friends.” — unknown
188. “Don’t play with me, I’m not a game to be played by kids. You better prefer upgrading yourself.” — unknown
189. “I don’t understand why people feel the need to play mind games constantly.”
190. “I don’t play games with people’s lives like you do.” — Simone Elkeles
191. “Play before you get Played, Leave Before You’re Left!”
192. “Don’t play games with me, I’m nothing like you want me to be. It’s not about popularity, it’s about darkness and honesty. I can’t be defeated. As I’m in the right path.”
193. I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable. - Author: Kim Cattrall
194. “Roses are red, violets are blue, you thought I would cry over you. I told you I loved you, and you thought it was true. Well guess what player, you got played too!”
195. “No one wants to be hurt or played, but you have to go through a few losers before you find someone worth keeping.” ― Sonya Parker
196. As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed. - Author: Sheridan Smith
197. I've never played for a draw in my life. - Author: Alex Ferguson
198. “A player will tell you anything to get you, but they won’t do anything to keep you.” ― Sonya Parker
199. I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different ... different personalities and musical tastes. - Author: Buddy Rich
200. In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience. - Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
201. “I am proud of my heart, it’s been played, cheated & broken, but it still works.”
202. “There is a difference between fair game and playing games.” — Hillary Clinton
203. “I’m a busy person. If you aren’t serious about getting results, let’s not waste each other’s time, I don’t play games.” — unknown
204. “Remember, I am noticing every moment of your actions. So, don’t fool me. When I speak out, you will become a fool.” — unknown
205. “Before you start messing with me, know that I don’t play games. I win them.” — unknown
206. “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
207. “You don’t have time to play games. You have the destiny to fulfill. Be bold and take control of your own life.” — Joel Osteen
208. I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags. - Author: Martin Freeman
209. “Sometimes you just have to play the role of a fool to fool the fool who thinks they are fooling you.” ― Steve Maraboli
210. Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure. - Author: Andre Agassi
211. I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored. - Author: Daniel Craig
212. William had played [rugby] at Eton when it first became popular, and now he only spoke of it in a reverent tone he normally saved only for women and rifles. . . . .
213. “Say what you want, but don’t play games with my affection. Take what you need, but don’t leave me with no direction.” — Michael Jackson
214. “I just want an honest relationship. No fake love. No lies. No mind games. No cheating.” — unknown
215. The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back. - Author: Lee Westwood
216. “Your status can’t ever match my status. Neither on Whatsapp nor in real life.” — unknown
217. I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement. - Author: Hannah Kearney
218. “Oh how I hate mind games… the aggression, the silent treatment, or the “poor me” people of the world… If you have something to say, then please say it… If you did something wrong, then accept the blame… Don’t turn it around to anyone else…” — unknown
219. The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team. - Author: Dennis Rodman
220. ”If I haven’t played with a player before and I don’t know anything about them, the more they tell me about themselves, the better I will judge how they think and how they play.” — Daniel Negreanu
221. “Evidently, you can dress me up, but you can’t cover my scars” — Donna Cooner
222. “There’s a big difference between someone playing you and someone losing interest in you after they’ve gotten to know you.” ― Sonya Parker
223. “I don’t know what’s worst, being taken for granted or being played like a fool.”
224. “Don’t play a game with me. Whether I win or lose, I know how to end it. And that will disappoint you. ”
225. “Don’t play games with those who once taught you the rules to be a player. You’ll end up stressed.” — unknown
226. “If you have time for games, then this is not the right place for you. Because I am strict and straight, I don’t deal with shady people, and I take every word for what it means. I play no games, I am down to earth for business.” — unknown
227. I've played a bunch of different versions of Walter [from Fringe].I loved it when he was being random, which was probably the original version of him, more than anyone else. I loved doing Walter then, and all of the different mental states that we've played. - Author: John Noble
228. There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat. - Author: Brian May
229. With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part. - Author: Richard Courant
230. “I have a limit and when you reach it, I dismiss you from my life. It is that simple.”
231. “Don’t play games with those who once thought you the rules to be a player. You’ll end up stressed.” – Unknown
232. Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.' - Author: Joyce DeWitt
233. “Don’t play a game with me. Whether I win or lose, I know how to end it, and that will disappoint you.” — Dorji Wangmo
234. And then I played some music, old music, and it sounded awful, and I loved it, I loved it so much. - Author: John Darnielle
235. “I’ve always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence – qualities older women possess. They’ve been on the Earth a little longer. They’re more seasoned. They don’t play games. They know what they want, and they’re not afraid to tell you.” — Taye Diggs. “I’ve always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence – qualities older women possess. They’ve been on the Earth a little longer. They’re more seasoned. They don’t play games. They know what they want, and they’re not afraid to tell you.” — Taye Diggs
236. The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play. - Author: Bill Russell
237. I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented. - Author: Julian Casablancas
238. “I heard you are a player. Nice meeting you. Well, I am a coach.” — unknown
239. “Being aware is being aware of one’s own mind and the games it plays on itself.” — Robin Macnaughton
240. “I swear, females can feel things way before they actually find out things. They can feel when they’re being played. They can feel when their friends are being sh*tty. They can feel when something isn’t right. And when they feel these things, they feel them so deeply.”
241. “You’re playing with my heart and it’s getting pretty lame. Decide what you want; the girl or the game.”
242. “It’s so easy to play with love, so easy to fool someone, so easy to make someone cry. But it’s so hard if you’re the one who’s played with, fooled and the one who cried.”
243. When I was really low, when it was all I could do not to feel sorry for myself, I played that game too. I knew I could never win, but some days, the dark days, the allure of playing 'if only' was too strong to resist. - Author: Becca Fitzpatrick
244. “What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this is virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?”
245. I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. - Author: Robert Morris
246. “She felt again that small shiver that occurred to her when events hinted at a destiny being played out, of unseen forces intervening.” ― Dorothy Gilman
247. I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final. - Author: Jonny Wilkinson
248. “Then I’ll just tell you that it doesn’t matter whose fault it is. Blame is just a way to keep score, and adults don’t play games like that.” — Tommy Wallach
249. “When your woman feels like her emotions are being played and toyed with, that when they start assuming and start putting her guard up.”
250. “We are all in somebody’s game. Some played. And some being played.” ― Rukhmini Naidu
251. “Fear is a trick. That’s being played on you. Don’t fall for it. Walk directly into it.” ― Fabienne Fredrickson
252. I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit. - Author: Wes Borland
253. I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives. - Author: Greg Norman
254. “My biggest mistake wasn’t falling for you, it was thinking that you had fallen for me too.”
255. ”I think I’m true to myself – you hear that actors have like plans. I’m gonna do this type of movie, then I’m gonna play this kind of character, and that’ll get me from A to B. I’ve never done that. I honestly just follow my gut, and I don’t think you can go wrong with that.” — Toni Collette
256. Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry. - Author: Mark Chesnutt
257. She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad."
258. “I heard you are a player. Nice meeting you. Well, I am a coach.”
259. “I don’t want to lie to people about how I feel, think, or what I want. Sometimes, people find that annoying, but the thing is I don’t like playing games.” — unknown
260. “Always listen to your instincts. When someone is using you, or playing you, and things aren’t adding up your instincts will tell you.”
261. I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky. - Author: Amber Benson
262. “WOW you played me, man I thought I was your baby.” ― Autumn Kohler
263. I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie. - Author: Adam McKay
264. “Don’t play games if you can’t afford to lose.” — Germony Kent
265. ”I don’t care what you play, where you’re from, who you produce. It depends on what you’re doing when you’re with me. That’s what counts. I don’t prejudge anything or anybody.” — Ziggy Marley
266. “I like to have fun, but I don’t play games.” — Yolanda Foster
267. “You could be close to perfect, you could pass all their tests, but a cheater’s a cheater, and they always pass up the best.” ― Tim Walters
268. “I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.” — Seth Godin
269. “I don’t like doing interviews. I’m not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.” — Jared Leto
270. “Players must play their game with fellow players, so don’t play with me. It’s not considered safe for the players to challenge the creator of that game.” — unknown
271. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German poet, playwright, and novelist
272. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. —Joe DiMaggio, former New York Yankees outfielder & Hall of Fame baseball player
273. “Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on. ’ – Unknown
274. My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love
275. “They had a basketball game that day and then it was like I had left the basketball game and I went to the studio with the rest of my homies from my block and it was like we had just slid to the stool, you know. I guess it just came off the record that way. ” – Polo G
276. Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.
277. It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. — Yogi Berra.
278. “When you think of Eden, don’t think of a public park with a lawn, a play set, and a flowerbed or two, where God hands Adam a lawnmower and says, Keep it tidy, will ya? Think of a violent, untamed wilderness teeming with beauty, but no infrastructure, no roads, no bridges, no cities, no civilization, and God says, Go make a world. Adam wasn’t a landscape-maintenance employee. He was an explorer, a cartographer, a gardener, a designer, an architect, a builder, an urban planner, a city-maker.”
279. “She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.” — A.J. Lawless
280. “It’s all fun and games until Santa checks the naughty list.”
281. “Me and my band have always lived by the code ‘Work hard, play harder,’” – Kenny Chesney
282. Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. — Babe Ruth.
283. “Don’t play victim to circumstances you created.”
284. Life’s a beach, and I’m just playing in the sand”
285. “Sometimes the best toy for your child is a mom who plays on the floor with them.” -unknown
286. “Of course, some dinosaurs had been social and cooperative. But others had been hunters—and killers of unparalleled viciousness. For Malcolm, the truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.”
287. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia
288. “To some Softball is a game; to others it’s Life.” – Jennie Finch
289. "When you study some of the Greek writings on melanin or the color of Africans, many of the Greek philosophers believed that melanin played some sort of role in how the Africans had been able to create and develop some of the sciences they had come to be known for, so melanin has always been known as an intellectual sort of chemical.” -Dr. Umar Johnson
290. I appreciate you for your tremendous effort, sacrifice, and the role you play to help me overcome my struggle in walking in the faith.
291. “We learned about honesty and integrity—that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama
292. “She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness. ” — a. j. lawless
293. “Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.” –A. N. Wilson
294. Don’t let anyone tell you winning doesn’t matter. You are in the softball game to win. You are playing to win
295. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton
296. “I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, stabbed, cheated, burned and broken, but somehow it still works. And they said miracles do not happen.” — Alcatraz Dey
297. “You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.” – Mary Elizabeth Winstead
298. “We learned about honesty and integrity—that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” —Michelle Obama, former First Lady. Michelle Obama offers more of her wisdom in her books Becoming and The Light We Carry. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves in these success quotes.
299. “It’s important to have balance in your life between work and play.” – Bobby Flay
300. “Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson
301. If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be human, you’d be a game show host. – Gabriel Heather
302. Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. – Eileen Caddy
303. “I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game.” – Caitlin Lowe
304. “That’s part of fastpitch softball, being able to move runners and execute the short game. It’s a very quick game. Sixty feet, you bobble it once, and these kids are going to be safe. You have to play quick, but you can’t be in a hurry.” – John Rittman
305. "I hate to see it go, I’ll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I’m sorry to see it go.” — Yogi Berra
306. “Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.”
307. All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
308. In baseball, you can’t kill the clock. You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why this is the greatest game. – Earl Weaver
309. “Softball is like love. First, you learn the rules of the game, and then you forget the rules and play from your heart.”
310. "I ain’t too much tripping on shit ‘cuz I know they gon’ need me before I need them. So you really playin’ yourself in the end.”
311. A citizen without reproach, a friend without pretense, a philanthropist without display, a Christian without hypocrisy.
312. Baseball is just a game. It’s a game for those who can play hard, well, and great
313. “The team with the best athletes doesn’t usually win._ It’s the team with the athletes who play best together.” – Lisa Fernandez
314. “Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. ” – Samuel Butler
315. “On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”
316. ”Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader. ” – Carrie Underwood
317. The little things in life are what we forget about. Take a moment to stop and smell the roses, sure. But don’t forget to play in the leaves after you rake them, dance in the rain, and just enjoy a breeze. You’re never too old to play.
318. “Our bodies play a huge role in the accomplishment of our goals and our overall happiness. Embodiment… is about tuning into our physical bodies and learning ways to support our health and well-being so that we can do what we need to do, and enjoy the journey.”
319. “It’s all fun and games until the last bell rings, then it gets real.”
320. “To be a good mother while my heart was breaking was one of the hardest roles I’ve ever had to play.”
321. I am who I am. I’m going to be who I am. And I’m going to give my all to the game in the way that I do it.
322. The best way to win is to play every softball game as if it’s your last one
323. “Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.” — Joe Torre
324. "I love playing ego and insecurity combined.” – Jim Carrey
325. “What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. ” – Lionel Messi
326. “Never downplay nobody. You could be like, ‘Ay, sh*t, there ain’t but seven dollars in my pocket right now.’ Who cares? ‘Cause guess what? An opportunity could come where you can have seven million tomorrow.”
327. “Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.”
328. Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing
329. “When we’d play softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ” — Woody Allen
330. “Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.” Samuel Butler
331. “Practice hard, train hard, work hard, and play harder.” — Alcurtis Turner
332. “Life’s a beach and I’m just playin’ in the sand.”
333. I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I'm always game for that. - Author: Brad Goreski
334. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” — Randy Pausch
335. “If I walk in the club, me and Tristan and twenty-five b*tches, who’s the richest man in the club?… Females are the ultimate status symbol amongst elite players.”
336. “Chaplin had not merely impressed but formed him. Showed him how any gesture—a kiss, playing with some bread rolls—can be freed from the mundane, imbued with magic. Charlie Chaplin was always turning caterpillars into butterflies. He had used comedy to reveal, and not flee, the truth of the human predicament. He’d roller-skated blindfolded over the void, like a planet circling a black hole. He filmed a factory worker sucked into a machine, fed through its cogs and gears, assailing an age that turns people into things. And Charlie Chaplin had battled the bleak world with—what? Not a knife, not a gun. A cane. Gentle, gestural, the baton of a maestro. Chaplin’s cane, with no disrespect to Hockney, Picasso, or Basquiat, was, in this moment, what Jim Carrey most wanted to save.”
337. “We play this game with emotion and love. Coach always says ‘Emotionally, physically, mentally come to the field prepared’, because if you don’t bring that to the field, you’re going to get beat.” – Laura Berg
338. “It is nice to be playing, being on the pitch, and contributing to the team.” ― Jordan Henderson
339. “By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.” — Jim Rohn
340. If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game. – Rickey Henderson
341. “Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.” – Deirdre O’Kane
342. “A relationship without trust is like a cell phone with no service, all you can do is play games.”
343. “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
344. "In order to be on top of your game, you have to be under a lot of pressure.”
345. “The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”
346. “The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.” – Maxine Hong Kingston
347. “The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them ‘outside’ of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.” – Raymond E. Feist
348. “The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.”
349. “I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization. ”
350. “You think you “played” me BUT, who ended up losing? I mean what did I lose? A boy that didn’t appreciate what I did for him? What did you let go? A girl that would go out her way just to please you and someone that rode with you through thick and thin. A girl who loved you regardless of your flaws (trust me there was a lot). You can easily be replaced, but a girl who put up with you like I did. Sorry, you played your damn self.” – Unknown
351. “Life balance is a myth. It’s an illusion, and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me, it’s about proportion. It’s really a work hard, play hard equation.” – Danielle LaPorte
352. “So, they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.” —A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
353. “I don’t speak on it all, but I notice. These mental notes have always been on point, I’ve never been naïve. Don’t underestimate what I know just because I’m selective about what I share. People think that just because you don’t care to catch them in every single lie that you aren’t paying attention. That’s a mistake. I don’t play detective or set traps or any of that. Time reveals all; eventually, everything comes to light. Your actions dictate our relationship. I don’t keep people in my life who haven’t shown me they deserve to stay. The little things add up. Always remember that.”
354. “When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.” – Dr. Seuss
355. “Never underestimate the power of my intuition. I can recognize your game before you ever play it.”
356. “The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” – Oscar Wilde
357. “Go hard every play. You don’t want to leave anything behind and regret it years down the road that you didn’t give it all when you could have. ” – Ashley DeBuhr
358. To some Softball is a game; to others it’s Life. ~Jennie Finch
359. “Life’s a beach, and I’m just playing in the sand” – Unknown
360. "One of the things that attracted me to Barack was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him—he is who he appears to be. I feel fortunate as a woman to have a husband who loves me and shows me in every way. So yes, I do know that. And now he'll know I know.. – First Lady Michelle Obama in an interview with Prevention about President Barack Obama.
361. “Life is the game that must be played.” ― Edwin Arlington Robinson
362. “I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, stabbed, cheated, burned and broken, but somehow it still works.” — Alcatraz Dey
363. “I didn’t fall out of bed and become an Olympic champion. I worked hard, I was dedicated, and I really worked to perfect all aspects of my game.” – Michele Smith
364. They are playing at the next level for a reason, watch what they do and learn from them
365. “You may swing and miss, but the love of the game shall stay the same.”
366. If you want to get over your ex why play with someone’s feelings to escape
367. I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.
368. “Judge me and I’ll prove you wrong! Tell me what to do and I’ll tell you where to go. Say I’m not worth it and watch how well I do without you. Gossip about me and I’ll show you how to play the game, betray me and you can kiss me goodbye forever!”
369. “A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one’s previous imaginings.” — Susie Orbach
370. ”We’re going to step on the field knowing that every team we’re going against is going to push their game to that whole new level that we probably hadn’t seen. … We’ve just got to be ready to step up with them. ” – Crystl Bustos, third base, Team USA
371. "Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
372. Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel. - Michael Bassey Johnson
373. Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, you gotta be ready to hit the curve. – Jaja Q
374. I am sick of liars and the games you play. I am sick of being lied to for the sake of your ego and fame. I am sick of the people who will betray me for their benefit. People who have expected me to do anything for them, yet refuse to give back in any way whatsoever.
375. “One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on the playing field carries over directly into life. In a team sport, you have to learn how to work together, to set goals, and then work toward those goals in a productive way. You learn to be responsible, and you learn how not only to be independent so you can support others.” – Sheila Cornell Douty
376. “I work hard, but I play hard.” – Kenny Chesney
377. Don’t play with someone’s heart if you have no intention intention serious relationship
378. “Softball is life with the volume turned up, how loud is your game, crank it up!”
379. “I want kids who are going to go out there and compete, lay it all on the table. I think the big thing about this game is you have to care a lot about it.” – Mike Candrea
380. I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it. – Carl Yastrzemski
381. “I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, burned and broken, but somehow still works.“
382. I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. — Walt Whitman.
383. “Don’t let the name of softball fool you, be ready to play hardball. ” – Anonymous
384. “No matter how good you might be in a movie, you’ll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That’s the thrill of it.” — Kevin Spacey
385. “Back then, I was still just a fan of music. And to be a fan of music also meant to be a fan of cities, of places. Regionalism—and the creative scenes therein—played an essential role in the identification and contextualization of a sound or aesthetic." - Carrie Brownstein
386. “Sometimes you gotta play the fool, to fool the fool, who thinks they’re fooling you.”
387. ”Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. ” – Unknown
388. “I’m convinced that a father’s role in child-raising should never be underestimated. underestimated. Fathers play a crucial role in their children’s emotional and physical well-being and in the choices they make about how to live their lives now and in the future.” – Nicoline Ambe
389. Our entire life is made up of choices, what we decide, the action we take, the attitude we display
390. “Detox your life by clearing out fake friends, dead-end jobs, & players posing as life partners. ” — Ritu Ghatourey
391. I don’t play detective or set traps or any of that; time reveals all eventually, and everything comes to light at some point or another. Your actions dictate our relationship; once you show me who you are for real, then you can make your own choices about whether my reality check is something you want to accept or not.
392. ”Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on. ” – Anonymous
393. “As David Brooks put it in a New York Times op-ed, “Over the last half century, we’ve turned politics from a practical way to solve common problems into a cultural arena to display resentments.”
394. No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. – Paul Gallico
395. “So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing.”
396. Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.” – Rumi
397. You will eventually become what you think. Whether you succeed or fail is determined in your mind long before we see it play out in real-time. – Mandy Hale
398. "Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”— Candace Bushnell
399. “I work hard so I can play harder.” – Dean Winters
400. Remember these two things: play hard and have fun. Tony Gwynn
401. Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.– Babe Ruth
402. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” — Michael Jordan, American businessman and former professional basketball player.
403. “If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare
404. “We play this game, softball, with emotion and love. Coach always says, ‘Emotionally, physically, mentally, come to the field prepared because if you don’t bring that to the field, you’re going to get beat. ” – Laura Berg
405. “Life winked at her and she grinned back; it was time to play.” – G.N. Berry
406. “Sometimes you have to play the role of a fool to fool the fool who thinks they are fooling you.”
407. “Of all the toys I have to play with, I’d choose my brothers and day.” – Anonymous
408. Change the game, don’t let the game change you. – Macklemore
409. A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside… when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
410. “Love is a game that two can play and both can win.” — Eva Gabor
411. My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass”. “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys”. Harmon Kellebrew
412. Defense to me is the key to playing baseball. – Willie Mays
413. “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass’; ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.'” – Harmon Killebrew
414. No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference. – Tommy Lasorda
415. If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. —Ben Hogan
416. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
417. “I know you got your problems, but brother, they got theirs This is not a game, quit violence and grow a pair.” – XXXTENTACION
418. “I laid the murder game down letting n*ggas know we not f*ckin’ around, man.” – Rico
419. “I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, stabbed, cheated, burned and broken, but somehow it still works. ” — Alcatraz Dey
420. “Beach blanket bingo, That’s the name of the game.”
421. “If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work.”
422. Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
423. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
424. “I love you in the morning, in the middle of the night, when I’m watching you sleep, all through my days and when I can’t sleep at night. I love you when we’re playing out in nature or sitting at home watching TV. And lastly, I love that even though we may not always agree on everything, we can still always come together and be united in our love for each other. Good morning, my darling!” – Calin
425. My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
426. “Even when you’ve played the game of your life, it’s the feeling of teamwork that you’ll remember. You’ll forget the plays, the shots, and the scores, but you’ll never forget your teammates.” – Deborah Palmore
427. "Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
428. “I really didn’t have my best stuff. My drop ball was inconsistent and they had a good game plan. I stopped worrying about striking people out and just focused on getting people out.” – Cat Osterman
429. “In this game, everyone needs a break to refuel, recharge, and jump back in full throttle. ” ― Helen Edwards, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom
430. “You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world and after you walk through those doors...you'll only really ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love. And don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.”
431. Sometimes you gotta play the fool, to fool the fool, who thinks they’re fooling you
432. Practice perfect today, play like a champion tomorrow. Unknown
433. “He’s playing you because you’re the only one who doesn’t know. ”
434. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. —Dee Dee Myers
435. When I played ball, I didn’t play for fun… It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. Ty Cobb
436. “The team with the best athletes doesn’t usually win._ It’s the team with the athletes who play best together.”
437. Never strike out in a softball game; never quit. Never quit on yourself because you can do this. You mustn’t quit, you got this game, and you must fight off the urges to quit on us
438. When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
439. These days it’s trendy for people to think they’re cool and understanding about mental illness, posting memes and such to indicate so. But the reality is far different to that. It seems most people think if they publicly display such understanding then perhaps a friend will come to them, open up, and calmly discuss their problems. This will not happen. For someone in that seemingly hopeless void of depression and anxiety the last thing they are likely to do is acknowledge it, let alone talk about it. Even if broached by a friend they will probably deny there is a problem and feel even more distanced from the rest of the world.
440. "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.. — Babe Ruth
441. “Setting emotional boundaries prevent people from manipulating you, using you, and playing with your feelings.” – Remez Sasson
442. I am sick of liars, I can’t stand cheaters and being played for a fool. I am sick of people using me and the only person that really cares about me is me.
443. “NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.” — Sarah Shahi
444. “I work hard. But I play hard, too.” –Pitbull
445. “Play every softball game like it is your last!” – Anonymous
446. That’s one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn’t begun to batter optimism. – Mike Barnicle
447. “By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.” Jim Rohn
448. Here’s to all the wise, funny, tough, gentle, playful, hardworking men who make a difference. —Keely Chace
449. There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. — Tommy Lasorda.
450. Let the players play, let the haters hate, and let karma decide their fate.” — unknown
451. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe, pro tennis player. These “be yourself” quotes will help you embrace who you are.
452. “I hate those who play with feelings of others.” ― Dominic Carey
453. Don’t play the victim to the circumstances you created
454. It’s all sun and games until somebody gets hurt…or burnt.
455. “Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.”
456. “Lets play truth and dare! Oh wait we can only play dare, you don’t know how to tell the truth.”
457. “I play outfield: I am not fazed by a line drive to center, can cover infield grass like a Ninja to make a game saving catch, have no problems laying out for a ball, can throw a rope to home plate or turn a double on a runner ho left second early, and am always, always there to back up my team because outfielders save games!”
458. “A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.”
459. “I suppose it’s easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it’s also quite gratifying to play.” — Ian McDiarmid
460. “I felt like a kid standing in the world’s greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.”― Ernest Cline
461. “When you play, play hard. When you work, don’t play at all.” – Theodore Roosevelt
462. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan
463. “Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won’t let me be selfish.” – Lebron James
464. The only thing you shouldn’t be playing with is feelings
465. They had a basketball game that day and then it was like I had left the basketball game and I went to the studio with the rest of my homies from my block and it was like we had just slid to the stool, you know. I guess it just came off the record that way.
466. “It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most in those two days. Imagine living a life where every day is your Saturdays and Sundays. Make every day for your weekend. Make every day a play-day…” – James A. Murphy
467. “I hate the radio this time of year because they play 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.”
468. The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity. - Author: Voltaire
469. “Gaslighters deliberately play subtle mind games and psychological manipulations; which are carried out gradually in stages.” ~ Invajy
470. "Make the most of this day! Laugh, love, read, live, learn, play, dream and just be happy! Live every moment! Happy Thursday!”
471. Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
472. “I have a nickname for my penis. It's called the Octagon, but I also nick named my testes: my left one is James Westfall and my right one is Doctor Kenneth Noisewater. You ladies play your cards right you just might get to meet the whole gang.”
473. “If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.” – Danny Masterson
474. “Tennis is just a game, family is forever.” ~ Serena Williams
475. I love to play baseball. I’m a baseball player. I’ve always been a baseball player. I’m still a baseball player. That’s who I am. – Ryne Sandberg
476. "In steering things in the body, in the regulatory system, melanin’s role in embryological organization, as in the baby’s organization and tissue repair and tissue regeneration, may be connected to the major role it plays to balance the body called homeostasis.” -Dr. Karl Merat
477. “The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: ‘Hello — Goodbye!’ and no address. I think the rest of the play will explain itself. . .”
478. The wise musicians are those who play what they can master
479. One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones. — Turcois Ominek
480. “I have read no book that more carefully, thoroughly, and tenderly displays Christ’s heart.” Paul Tripp
481. "It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."— Babe Ruth, former professional baseball player
482. “If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare
483. “People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.” – Amy Poehler
484. Playing softball keeps you in shape and is good for your mind. The best part of playing softball? You can do it all over again tomorrow
485. It's true, Batsy! I know everything. And kinda like the kid who peeks at his Christmas presents, I must admit, it’s sadly anti-climactic. Behind all the sturm and batarangs, you’re just a little boy in a playsuit, crying for mommy and daddy!. — Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
486. “It’s all sun and games until somebody gets hurt…or burnt.” – A.N. Onymous
487. “For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy.” ~ Erik Pevernagie
488. “The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.” —Mia Hamm, pro soccer player
489. I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give. — Roberto Clemente.
490. ”To play it takes talent, but to win it takes desire!” – Unknown
491. “Play every softball game like it is your last!” — W. Bindels
492. Happy Saturday. Make yhe most of this day! Lough, love, read, live, love, learn, play, dream. Just be happy. Live every moment.
493. “Go for great. Own your game. Be kind. Get big things done.” ― Robin S. Sharma
494. My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
495. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan
496. “The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me.” — Danielle LaPorte
497. “Good players can’t overcome bad coaching.”
498. “Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to play you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.”
499. There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain. — Casey Stengel.
500. I cannot play myself again/I should just be my own best friend– 'Tears Dry On Their Own' by Amy Winehouse
501. “I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, burned and broken, but somehow still works.” – Anonymous
502. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. — Bob Feller.
503. “Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.” — Robin S. Sharma
504. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” –Lalah Deliah
505. Life is a beach. I’m just playing in the sand.
506. "A rule of the spiritual practice game is learning to trust one’s own intuitive heart; learning to trust another way of knowing outside of the rational, analytical process. That you start to respond to something in you that knows even though who you think you are doesn’t know it knows. It turns out intuition is perhaps where salvation lies and where thinking is where our destruction lies. We thought our way into this peculiar situation where we’re alienated from the Earth and from each other. And caught in greed which is a product of the mind.
507. Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That’s why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It’s a natural movement in softball. In baseball it’s not a natural movement.
508. “If music be the food of love, play on,
509. "Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.” – Sai Baba of Shirdi
510. I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give. – Roberto Clemente
511. “Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on.”– Anonymous
512. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
513. I laid the murder game down letting n*ggas know we not f*ckin’ around, man.” – Rico
514. “Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.”
515. “When we’d play softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ” – Woody Allen
516. “If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second. ” — Danny Masterson
517. “Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.”
518. “Are you a flying monkey? Be careful. Don’t get caught up in a narcissist’s mind games.”
519. "The game is to be where you are. Be it honestly and as consciously as you know how.”
520. “The efforts you made all of the time for our family can never be fully thanked for. Even when you were tired, you never failed to play with our children! To a wonderful man, I hope you know how much we love you.”
521. They say, “Softball is a woman’s game. ” But I say, “Softball is a man’s game played with a woman’s heart. ”
522. “I am glad you don’t think I am heartless. I am nothing of the kind. I know I am not. And yet I must admit that this thing that has happened does not affect me as it should. It seems to me to be simply like a wonderful ending to a wonderful play. It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.” ― Oscar Wilde
523. Two young boys sitting on the kitchen floor playing with pots and pans
524. “At Christmas play, and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” ~ Thomas Tusser
525. True love is a dedication to a cause, it is a willingness to fight for and protect what you have with them. If they are unwilling to fight for it, then they are just playing games.” – Anonymous
526. Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen. Mark Buehrle
527. If you can dream it, you can do it. If you can imagine it, you can be it. If you can believe it, you can achieve it and win the softball game
528. “In your spiritual duties, you not only play the role of pastor, but act as the community’s advisor, advocate, teacher, and friend. Thank you for always going above and beyond to fulfill each and every one of these roles!” — Unknown
529. A n*gga like me man, I love the game. I love the hustle.” – Mitch
530. “I’m a jet jockey and I’ve always escaped ever since I was a kid. I’ve always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It’s not been a mid-life thing at all, it’s been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it’s for the day. It’s a good thing.” — John Travolta
531. “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back. Remember your failures, learn from them, and get back into the game.”
532. The service of the pastor is selfless, the service of the priest is precious, the services of the clergy is sweet. I’d be an ingrate if I fail to appreciate every bit of the roles you played in my life.
533. "Life must be lived as play.” – Plato
534. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: We all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.” —Maya Angelou, American writer and civil rights activist
535. “For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy.” — Erik Pevernagie
536. "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. – Albert Einstein
537. Dear dad, you’re the head of the family, beloved husband of our mum and a granddad for our children. How do you manage to play so many roles excellently? We won’t stop admiring you ever. Happy father’s day!
538. You can’t get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement. – Mike Piazza
539. Some people are born with wonderful memories and have no trouble keeping things straight. Those born without this incredible ability have to find ways to strengthen their memories. Some do this through repetition exercises, some come up with nifty little games or tricks to keep their mind alert and focused. Jane Peters, Memory
540. Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonders of the weekend into your week and your work. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
541. “Good luck to my favorite awesome tee-ball player!”
542. “Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.” — Ted Sundquist, American football player.
543. “To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton
544. “All I wish a sheet of clouds for your bed and bright crystals for the stars. While you sleep, may the angels play sweet songs that bring you bright dreams.”
545. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and look up at the stars.” – Henry Van Dyke
546. “Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.” ~ Michael Jackson
547. Softball is a game that makes me smile, cry, and go crazy, but nothing ever changes how I feel about playing or watching the game
548. Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed. ~Yvette Girouard
549. “I just think the more we’re observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.” — Logan Marshall-Green
550. “It’s all fun and games until Santa checks the naughty list — here’s hoping he doesn’t check twice!”
551. “Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on.”
552. A ballplayer is a ballplayer no matter what. As long as you have the spirit of playing, no matter who is in your sights, that’s the only thing that is your foe.
553. “Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous rhythm of a cataract, on the inside is the exhausted adagio of drops of water falling from time to tired time. For this reason the outside, seen from the melancholic inside, appears absurd and unreal, and constitutes ‘the farce we all must play’. But for an instant – because of a wild music, or a drug, or the sexual act carried to its climax – the very slow rhythm of the melancholic soul does not only rise to that of the outside world: it overtakes it with an ineffably blissful exorbitance, and the soul then thrills animated by delirious new energies”
554. "In invertebrates, melanin plays a huge role in their immune system. When they have a pathogen coming into their system, they will coat the pathogen in melanin and kill it.” -Dr. Raven Baxter
555. Me and my dad used to play tag. He’d drive.
556. “If the police expect to play against the Joker, they’d better be prepared to be dealt from the bottom of the deck!”
557. “The difference between being in a relationship and being in prison is that in prisons they let you play softball on the weekends.” – Agatha Christie
558. “We play softball, but we ain’t going soft on you.”
559. “I don’t speak on it all, but I notice. These mental notes have always been on point, I’ve never been naïve. Don’t underestimate what I know just because I’m selective about what I share. People think that just because you don’t care to catch them in every single lie that you aren’t paying attention. That’s a mistake. I don’t play detective or set traps or any of that. Time reveals all, eventually everything comes to the light. Your actions dictate our relationship. I don’t keep people in my life who haven’t shown me they deserve to stay. The little things add up. Always remember that.”
560. "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”— Josh Billings
561. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” Theodore Roosevelt
562. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well..”-Robert Louis Stevenson
563. Thank you for giving me a happy childhood. I remember all the toys you ever bought. I remember every game you came up with. I remember every single fairytale that you made up especially for me. I love you unreservedly. We all do.
564. “If you get started and play the long game, you have a great chance of winning.”
565. “Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks, and plays in freedom.” – Arnaud Desjardins
566. I ain’t playin. I know I look like a player, but just please give me a chance.
567. There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain. – Casey Stengel
568. “Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing.”
569. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
570. “Go hard every play. You don’t want to leave anything behind and regret it years down the road that you didn’t give it all when you could have.” – Ashley DeBuhr
571. “Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep or games, but only by seeing their beloved.”
572. Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is. – Bob Feller
573. “In softball, go hard every play. You don’t want to leave anything behind and regret it years down the road that you didn’t give it all when you could have. ” – Ashley DeBuhr
574. “Patience. Patience. Patience. Work to view my autism as a different ability rather than a disability. Look past what you may see as limitations and see the gifts autism has given me. It may be true that I’m not good at eye contact or conversation, but have you noticed that I don’t lie, cheat at games, tattle on my classmates or pass judgment on other people? Also true that I probably won’t be the next Michael Jordan. But with my attention to fine detail and capacity for extraordinary focus, I might be the next Einstein. Or Mozart. Or Van Gogh.” – Ellen Notbohm
575. “You only get so much time to play the game. Play it right the first time. You don’t get a second try at life.”
576. “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously—no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner—no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat—the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.”
577. The sound of rolling dice to me is music in the air, ’cause I’m a gambling Boogie Man, although I don’t play fair! — Oogie Boogie
578. If you can’t outplay them, outwork them
579. No individual can win a game by himself. — Plato
580. I am sick of liars. I am tired of the same old stuff that you tell me every day. So let’s stop this game called lying and come clean.
581. “To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me” – Isaac Newton
582. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
583. "Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” —Babe Ruth"
584. “To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me” – Sir Isaac Newton
585. “The most dangerous drinking game is seeing how long I can go without coffee.”
586. All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. – Babe Ruth
587. “There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it’s audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.”
588. Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. — Jackie Robinson.
589. If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, Jeopardy, I hate to lose. — Derek Jeter.
590. “He was too little to play hockey, said Victor, he might get hurt.”
591. “Don’t think you’re too good to sit and root for your team, be a team player.”
592. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir
593. “Cherish the children marching to the beat of their own music. They play the most beautiful heart songs.” – Fiona Goldsworthy
594. “The only way to win with a toxic partner is not to play.”
595. There's silence all around when the lion enters the game of prey.
596. “I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.” – Jacqueline Bisset
597. “Bruised, bloody, broken, all for this sport. I’ll never hold back. I play it, love it and live it. Softball, my sport, my love, my life.”
598. “If you love that three-two pitch, that diving catch, the dirt in your hair, the face of your opponent, and that slide into home that won the game but also gave you one horrible bruise, then you’re a true softball player. ” – Anonymous
599. “Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.” ~ Samuel Butler
600. What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball... — Babe Ruth.
601. “To play against me you gotta have guts. To play against my team you gotta be nuts.”
602. “Every time go into the button room and I try my best but I don’t succeed, I get what I want, but not what I need – it’s Coldplay. ” – Wilbur Soot
603. “Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.”
604. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” —Eva Gabor
605. “Whether they’re family or friends, manipulators are difficult to escape from. Give in to their demands and they’ll be happy enough, but if you develop a spine and start saying no, it will inevitably bring a fresh round of head games and emotional blackmail. You’ll notice that breaking free from someone else’s dominance will often result in them accusing you of being selfish. Yes, you’re selfish, because you’ve stopped doing what they want you to do for them. Wow. Can these people hear themselves?!” -Rosie Blythe
606. “If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.” Anthony J. D’angelo
607. “The game is not rigged. It’s karma creeping on you for your cheating.”
608. “In the entire universe, you play such a huge role. The self esteem and love you have for yourself is the only gift you need to give. It isn’t a selfish act to love yourself hard. Only you can love yourself to the fullest because you understand why every aspect of your life has happened. A self love deficit isn’t what will bring you joy. The wrong mental attitude can be devastating in the world. If you have true self esteem and high self love you can share that love with the world around you. To love oneself is to love the world and a person learns that only when they show themselves the kindness they deserve.” – Anonymous
609. “Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”
610. One of the greatest things about baseball is that you do not need much to play. All you need is a bat and a ball - not even a glove - and a whole lot of imagination. — David Ortiz.
611. “you’re far more likely to run into the enemy in the form of an alert on your phone while you’re reading your Bible or a multiday Netflix binge or a full-on dopamine addiction to Instagram or a Saturday morning at the office or another soccer game on a Sunday or commitment after commitment after commitment in a life of speed.”
612. “Some people treat relationships as a video game, they play them and when they get bored they cheat.” – Anonymous
613. Put your ego aside and play as a team.
614. “When you’re tired, sleep. Don’t watch stupid tv or play games on your phone.” – Maggie Stiefvater
615. When life knocks you on your back, don’t fall. Stand tall, with your head held high, and smile again, because you aren’t alone. And, this is a softball game
616. “Do you not see how the elites play you? They stop mentioning the virus, everyone stop mentioning the virus, no one talks about the virus anymore. Now it’s racism.”
617. “They say never ride with the ones you didn’t walk with, real friends show you real love not only talk it. I made the team but figured out the game wasn’t important when I found my homies switching sides the nights we weren’t scoring.” ― John Maiorana
618. I’ve always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset. – Curt Schilling
619. In the Christian cycle, it is crucial that a believer should have a spiritual mentor that will guide him or her in the Christian faith. Although, the word of God has advised us to look unto Jesus, the power of men who could guide and bring us closer to Him cannot be downplayed.
620. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” — George Bernard Shaw
621. “When I started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex. Now engaged to the game and married to success.” – Unknown
622. Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonders of the weekend into your week and your work.” —Rasheed Ogunlaru
623. “Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.” – Octavio Paz
624. “Work hard…have fun…be nice…play fair…dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you’re going to play this game, play it to win.” – Robert Herjavec
625. “Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I’ve pretty much adopted that.” — James Patterson
626. What I love about the game (softball) is that the game doesn’t know who is supposed to win. ~Sue Enquist
627. The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.
628. It’s amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain. Buddy Bell
629. “Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training. ” – Lionel Messi
630. “Every time I go into the button room and I try my best, but I don’t succeed, I get what I want, but not what I need — it’s Coldplay. ”
631. “The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. ” — Michael Jordan
632. Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing. – Dan Buettner
633. “When you play, never mind who listens to you.” ― Robert Schumann
634. ”What I love about the game (softball) is that the game doesn’t know who is supposed to win. ” – Sue Enquist
635. “The key to happiness is learning to accept yourself and become comfortable with whatever role you play in life.”
636. “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”
637. “I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who “appreciate” beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There’s no such thing. I never “appreciate,” any more than I “like.” I love, or I hate.” - Pablo Picasso
638. “This game (softball) is a game of inches. Sometimes they are going to go our way, and sometimes they aren’t. ” – Ashley Hansen
639. “Never let your mind and your ego fill you with the fear of failure and turn you against your playful heart.”
640. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. –Truman Capote
641. “You are basically a blue-collar worker out there. You’re the man behind the quarterback and the person that makes everything run… You’re in every play. You have to be ready to take on any challenge.” – Jacobe Kendrick
642. “No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
643. “What I value most in my friends is loyalty. ” —David Mamet, director and playwright
644. “As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.” ~ Mark Batterson
645. Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. — Bob Feller.
646. “I’m very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren’t talking on stage. I’m interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.” – Annie Baker
647. When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played. - Dr. Seuss
648. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
649. “I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.”
650. In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that. – Alvin Dark
651. A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. — Joe DiMaggio.
652. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” —Joe DiMaggio, former New York Yankees outfielder & Hall of Fame baseball player
653. “It takes courage to say yes to rest and play, in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a symbol status.” – Brene Brown
654. “There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you’ll look good, you’ll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there’s no substitute for hard work.”- Hope Solo
655. Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.” ― Yani Tseng
656. “Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.”
657. The tough thing about attitudes is that we learn them very early in life. They play a big part in the map of who we are and how we operate. Dr Henry. Cloud, Boundaries.
658. You’re out there on the softball field, don’t let anyone tell you what to do. It’s all up to you to return to the field of play and win
659. Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
660. Treat me like a queen and I’ll treat you like a king. Treat me like a game, and I’ll show you how it’s played.
661. “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” — Maya Angelou
662. “I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work. ” – Jerry Rice
663. Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field. – Juliana Hatfield
664. “Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.” – Mary Roberts Rinehart
665. There is no passion to be found in playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. —Nelson Mandela
666. “I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who ‘appreciate’ beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There’s no such thing. I never ‘appreciate,’ any more than I ‘like.’ I love, or I hate.” – Pablo Picasso
667. “I don’t want to be with someone boring because I’m always laughing. I to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.” ― Ashley Benson
668. “The point of the game is not how well the individual does but whether the team wins. That is the beautiful part of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for group success.”
669. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannnot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Chuck Swindoll
670. “I’ve always had a ‘work hard, play hard’ attitude to life. I still do. But sometimes you can get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.” – Damian Lewis
671. But it’s all fake. Understand what I’m saying? This life. This game. There is no love in it. It doesn’t love you back.” – Ace. . But it’s all fake. Understand what I’m saying? This life. This game. There is no love in it. It doesn’t love you back.” – Ace.
672. “You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” ― Kelly White
673. “There is a way to play this game physically, but it’s the mental part that’s going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze. ” – Lisa Fernandez
674. Thank you for the important role you play in our congregation.” — Unknown Author
675. A selfish core gives birth to the two most derogatory activities of the world- brainwashing and mind games.
676. “My focus is to continue to advocate on behalf of people with autism, especially adults, for better programs and services that will help them achieve a more independent and greater life. Regardless of the function level, every person with autism has an important role to play as the agents of change that the World truly needs”
677. I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all. – Dave Winfield
678. Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; dream while others are wishing.
679. "Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.” – Leo Buscaglia
680. Teachers play such an enormous role in forming, not just teaching them, but forming character in our kids. We really have to thank them for what they do. They are really the core that makes our society work. Jeanine Pirro
681. “Thank God for blessing me with such a lovely sibling to play and live with.”
682. “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we?re in each other?s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson
683. Liberty is the breath of life to nations.”—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
684. "The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.” ― Ram Dass
685. Be a peacemaker in everyday life. Display peace in everything you do. Be peace. Live in peace.
686. See, the thing about the game is, the—don’t stop. You could be hurt, and it doesn’t matter. Business will still roll up on you.” – Ace
687. I've jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody's daddy.
688. “Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.” ― Michael Jackson
689. “Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.” ― Patrick Rothfuss
690. “The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.” – Michael Jordan
691. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. – Michael Jordan (Click to Tweet!)
692. “You play the way you practice.” – Mike O’Halloran
693. The homepage of our relationship cannot be currently displayed because of a server error. Can we please click on the refresh button and start over again? I am sorry.
694. Yeah, we play like girls, that should scare you
695. Back in my day, we didn’t think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn’t think about anybody else but the Cardinals. – Stan Musial
696. “No matter how good you might be in a movie, you’ll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That’s the thrill of it.” ~ Kevin Spacey
697. Even a good player will someday become a toy of an even better player. It’s called karma.” — unknown
698. I loved being on the field playing and teaching softball. I didn't like the fact that a camp had my name on it and I didn't know the logistics of what was going on. I wanted to make sure I was involved in a camp that did things right.
699. “Little by little, I’m getting better all the time. I’ve not lost the passion to play.” – Lionel Messi
700. “If you don’t have good intentions, please leave me alone. I’m too tired for games.” – Anonymous
701. ¨Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.¨ —Michael Jordan, pro basketball player and businessman
702. “Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have. ” —Ernie Banks, pro baseball player. Next, read these sports quotes for success on the field and in life
703. “Goals are only important if they win games.” – Lionel Messi
704. “In invertebrates, melanin plays a huge role in their immune system. When they have a pathogen coming into their system, they will coat the pathogen in melanin and kill it.” -Dr. Raven Baxter
705. “I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.
706. I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. – Tom Hopkins
707. Love is a game that two can play and both can win.
708. The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. — Babe Ruth.
709. Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. — Babe Ruth.
710. “Back then, I was still just a fan of music. And to be a fan of music also meant to be a fan of cities, of places. Regionalism—and the creative scenes therein—played an essential role in the identification and contextualization of a sound or aesthetic.” – Carrie Brownstein
711. "This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realise it is play.” – Alan Watts
712. “It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.”
713. “The values learned on the playing field – how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy, and deal with stress – prepare us for life.” – Donna de Verona
714. “It’s a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.”
715. “Never downplay nobody. You could be like, ‘Ay, sh*t, there ain’t but seven dollars in my pocket right now.’ Who cares? ‘Cause guess what? An opportunity could come where you can have seven million tomorrow.” – Young Dolph
716. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” —Babe Ruth
717. "You will only ever have two choices—love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.”
718. “It’s true, Batsy! I know everything. And kinda like the kid who peeks at his Christmas presents, I must admit, it’s sadly anti-climactic. Behind all the sturm and batarangs, you’re just a little boy in a playsuit, crying for mommy and daddy! It’d be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.”
719. “I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn’t take any ability to hustle.” – Wade Boggs
720. "Historically it had always been thought that melanin played a significant role in the intellectual propensity of African people.” -Dr. Umar Johnson
721. Let the players play, let the haters hate and let karma decide their fate
722. “It takes two to do the trust tango–the one who risks (the trustor) and the one who is trustworthy (the trustee); each must play their role. —Charles H. Green, The Trusted Advisor
723. “I try to use pressure to help me in every game. Pressure helps me do things to the best of my ability. I like it. I don’t feel pressure; quite the contrary, because I always enjoy what I’m doing and that’s playing football.” – Lionel Messi
724. “Work hard, play hard.” — Wiz Khalifa
725. “Often the narcissist believes that other people are “faking it”, leveraging emotional displays to achieve a goal. He is convinced that their ostensible “feelings” are grounded in ulterior, non-emotional motives. Faced with other people’s genuine emotions, the narcissist becomes suspicious and embarrassed. He feels compelled to avoid emotion-tinged situations, or worse, experiences surges of almost uncontrollable aggression in the presence of expressed sentiments. They remind him how imperfect he is and how poorly equipped.”
726. “I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who “appreciate” beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There’s no such thing. I never “appreciate,” any more than I “like.” I love, or I hate.” – Pablo Picasso
727. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King
728. “With all the toys in the world, people choose feelings to play with. ”
729. “This is the real secret to life- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is played.”- Alan Watts
730. “I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.” ― Chuck Klosterman
731. “Because of the memory fear created in childhood, Nice Guys still approach the world as if it is dangerous and overpowering. To cope with these realities, Nice Guys typically hunker down and play it safe. ”—
732. "We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” ― Charles R. Swindoll
733. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” Michael Jordan
734. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
735. "The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now."
736. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.” —Heraclitus
737. “Your mom called. You left your game at home.”
738. Birthdays are a time for reflection. Think about all the memories we have made over the years and all the things we have yet to do. I hope your birthday is everything you have ever wanted! You have played such a supporting role in my life and I love you for that. Happy Birthday!
739. “That is what Christmas should be about, I think — togetherness and playfulness. It’s like a game.”— Billy Howle
740. “You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.” –Mary Elizabeth Winstead
741. Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. — Samuel Butler
742. The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three-run homers. – Earl Weaver
743. I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. – Pete Rose
744. She remembered who she was and the game changed.
745. Tuesday, the second day of the workweek, a day that you may feel is a long way from the weekend. However, as the quote states allow yourself some play this Tuesday.
746. Softball is a sport of mental alertness. You have to bring your A-game for a remarkable performance
747. “Yesterday’s homes runs don’t win today’s games”- Babe Ruth
748. “The strongest players are not always the team that wins, but the players who don’t give up when they lose.”
749. Softball is life with the volume turned up, how loud is your game, crank it up! ~Unknownsoftball quote
750. “This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”– Alan Watts
751. “The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
752. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game—it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again. – James Earl Jones
753. “This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” – Alan Watts
754. “I’m not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I’m not a rock star. I’m not in it for the fame, I’m in it because I like to play.” ~ Eddie Van Halen
755. “In a world with no rules and filled with uncertainty, trust must play a critical role in relationships. Loyalty must be the foundation of everything. ” — S. K. Lee
756. “Working theory of the devil’s strategy: deceitful ideas that play to disordered desires that are normalized in a sinful society Working theory of the law of returns applied to spiritual formation: sow a thought, reap an action; sow action, reap another action; sow some actions, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny, either in slavery to the flesh or freedom in the Spirit.”
757. “A man is not an orange. You can’t eat the fruit and throw the peel away. ” —Arthur Miller, playwright, in Death of a Salesman
758. Good things come to those who wait and those who play. But if you don’t play, you will never win the softball game
759. “Life must be lived as play.” – Plato
760. When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED. ― Dr. Seuss
761. I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. — Pete Rose.
762. Let’s play ball, but not the way it’s always been played. Let’s win, and then let’s celebrate the game for all its worth
763. "Love is a game that two can play and both win.” ― Eva Gabor
764. We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
765. My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' — Harmon Killebrew
766. “In India, there’s a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It’s called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.”
767. Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work.” —Rasheed Ogunlaru
768. “There is a way to play this game (softball) physically, but it’s the mental part that’s going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.”
769. “What if the formula “more stuff equals more happiness” is bad math? What if more stuff often just equals more stress? More hours at the office, more debt, more years working in a job I don’t feel called to, more time wasted cleaning and maintaining and fixing and playing with and organizing and reorganizing and updating all that junk I don’t even need. What if more stuff actually equals less of what matters most? Less time. Less financial freedom. Less generosity, which according to Jesus is where the real joy is. Less peace, as I hurry my way through the mall parking lot. Less focus on what life is actually about. Less mental real estate for creativity. Less relationships. Less margin. Less prayer. Less of what I actually ache for? What if I were to reject my culture’s messaging as a half-truth at best, if not a full-on lie, and live into another message? Another gospel?”
770. “Whether it’s a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game — I play the same. I’m always trying to be my best, for my team, for myself, for the fans, and try and win. ” – Lionel Messi
771. Yet all of us need to play about as much as we need to eat and drink. It is essential to our emotional health.
772. "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
773. “You should see some of the videos I had when I was a child, I was not very socially skilled with the other kids, not showing interests with other people, displaying some of the challenging behaviors that a child, on the autism spectrum, would have.”
774. “The emptiness of the narcissist often means that they are only focused on whatever is useful or interesting to them at the moment. If at that moment it is interesting for them to tell you they love you, they do. It’s not really a long game to them, and when the next interesting issue comes up, they attend to that. The objectification of others and viewing other people as objects useful to his needs can also play a role.”
775. “Wanna fight for my future, it’s right in my hands. And the future of many youth if I play my cards can advance.” – XXXTENTACION
776. “Locked in that cell missed a lot of things. Thinkin’ bout to take over the game. I gotta make my way outta the ring. My heart full of hatred, my chest full of pain.” – NBA YoungBoy, Song: “Trappin’”
777. The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. — Michael Jordan
778. When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.” ―Dr. Seuss
779. “Bad memories will play the most often, but just because the memory comes up doesn’t mean you have to watch it. Change the channel.”
780. “Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.” - Robin S. Sharma, Lawyer, and Author
781. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~Marianne Williamson
782. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness." — Leo F. Buscaglia
783. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game”
784. “You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game. ” – Armaan Malik
785. “The devil’s primary stratagem to drive the soul and society into ruin is deceptive ideas that play to disordered desires, which are normalized in a sinful society.”
786. If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan
787. "Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.”
788. “Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.” – Samuel Butler, Hudibras
789. “When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles.” — Winnie the Pooh
790. There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace its audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers.”
791. “Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they’re everywhere. ” – Walter Kirn
792. Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game. – Jim Jarmusch
793. “I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at the moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.” – Lionel Messi
794. “Softball is from the top of the heart. Every game you play, it’s played by love in your heart. ” – Anonymous
795. Putting on a PROMinent Display
796. “I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.”
797. “Roses are red, violets are blue. You really thought I would cry over you? I said I loved you. You thought that was true. Well, guess what player? You just got played, too. ”
798. Mothers play such an important role in the life of their sons. There is a deep connection between a mother and her son that starts from the moment of conception.
799. “As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.” – Bret Michaels
800. “Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.” — Samuel Butler
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