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Chinese Proverb

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Eric Berne

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Anon.

We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

Anita Brookner

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Jean Piaget

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Ben Hogan

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Hank Aaron

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.

Dag Hammarskjld

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for

Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Steven Wright

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

Bobby Knight

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Steven Wright

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get mycar going really fast, and stick it out the window. I've beenarrested three times for practicing.

Miles Davis

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Joe E. Louis

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life.

Joe E. Lewis

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

William E. Holler

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

Harry Caray

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

Casey Stengel

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Ralph Kiner

Sutton lost 13 games in a row without winning a ballgame.

Mark Duffy

In Louisiana we don't bet on football games ... We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

Erma Bombeck

If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead.

Ernest Hemingway

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games.

Paul William Bear Bryant

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Eric Berne

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Michael Jordan

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Pierre de Coubertin

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Ernie Banks

Let's play two

Dick Allen

If a cow can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

Miles Davis

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

Thomas Jefferson

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.

Robert Frost

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Plato

Life must be lived as play.

Martin Buber

Play is the exultation of the possible.

Eva Gabor

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Unknown

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.

Rodney Dangerfield

And we were poor too. Why, if I wasn't born a boy...I'd have nothing to play with!

Rodney Dangerfield

Boy were we poor, if I wasn't born a boy I would of had nothing to play with.

Danish proverb

What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.

Rodney Dangerfield

We were poor too. Why, if I wasn't born a boy, I'd have nothing to play with.

Heraclitus

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

Michael Jordan

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Frank Caplan

Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.

George Dorsey

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Jim Fiebig

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.

Heraclitus

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Thomas J. Watson

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Chinese Proverb

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Harry Vardon

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

Jerry Coleman

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Robert A. Heinlein

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.

H. E. Luccock

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

"Do not play games with the Hand; they do not play games."

The police.....always wanting to play games.

"The gods play games with men as balls." - Titus Maccius Platus

"You'll lose your mind and play free games for may" -Pink Floyd

"Some people play head games, but I can't afford the equipment."--R.W.

"Holodeck? Is that the thing where you play games?" - Yakko

The reason I dont play ballads? Because I love to play them.

We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.

"*GAMES*?! Did someone say games?" -Q

"Games? Did someone say 'games?'" - Q

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Dan Quayle Virus: Forces your computer to run golf games from 10 AM t

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

To play it safe is not to play.

"Play it, Sam. Play... As Time Goes By" -- Elsa

"Skategate" -official scandal of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games

"Kissing girls is a goodness. It beats hell out of card games."

"Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.." FLOYD

"Canada 7 games to 1." Mark Mulvoy, Sports Illustrated.

"I'm gonna blow it all on video games!" Crow T. Robot

"Let the games begin..." * Slappy Squirrel, Animaniacs

"Little holocreatures running around, rides & games for the kiddies.."

"Paladins is *sooooo* stupid!" - Many Games, Many Times.

"Playing the games that we know and in tears" - Pink Floyd

"It's all fun and games 'til someone looses an eye"- James Hetfield

"Buy computer games right now. Especially the funny Lucasarts ones."

"I despise guessing games." -- Scar

"Don't you get tired of these games?" Kirk to Sylvia

"Now I wish I hadn't written so many tank games." - Flynn

Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn???t play dice with the universe because the universe doesn???t need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there i

"If the Bat wants to play, we'll play!" - Two-Face

"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" -B. Cowie

"Our games of make believe are at an end!" - Phantom

Friends don't let friends drive to Oiler games

"I was there, when he became Lord of the Games." Flavius

"I want him in the Games until he dies playing." -- MCP

"Welcome to the jungle - we've got fun & games..." - GNR

"Enough games, Sir Thomas Serveau! Smooch me! Smooch me!"

With foxes we must play the fox.

Don't play stupid with me. I'm better at it.

What we play is life.

God does not play dice.

I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.

Don't play stupid with me! I'm better at it.

I don't think so. Homey don't play dat.

If I can't win, I don't wanna play!