The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.
Playing a final is great, but it's winning it that counts.
Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.
I was looking forward to playing soccer, playing more minutes on the pitch, and I didn't have the chance to play more minutes in Manchester. So I came here to the Chicago Fire.
The only thing that matters with my kids are them graduating and playing well, and I try to do my dangedest to get them to play well.
Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.
Anything in which you're playing someone real does make you feel responsible for making the story as true as it can be.
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.
I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.
When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.
I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.
I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.
I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.
I've also always known that I wouldn't be playing for the N.B.A.
Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.
There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.
When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.
As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.
The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.
I think, pretty much like everyone around my age, I grew up playing those classic video games. I wouldn't say I was addicted to them, but I definitely liked them.
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.
Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.
I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of 'Batman.'
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.
I love life and if there's something that I'm playing that I love, I'll research it.
