Top 565 Playing Quotes

Playing in arenas, that’s very non-personal with the crowd.
Brendon Urie
I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.
Rafael Nadal
But it’s always good to see youngsters taking over and playing great tennis. We have to get ready and prepare because they’re going to play better against us.
Sofia Kenin
I’m not really a redhead, but I keep playing these redhead actresses. Which I don’t mind; I think it’s fun.
Sophia Lillis
I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There’s a part of me there, too, and you explore that.
Brian Dennehy
I’ve been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.
Arlen Specter
The higher up the order I bat, I play with more responsibility and playing with top order batsman, you interact and gain confidence.
Ravindra Jadeja
Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing ‘Hospital’. Sometimes I feel like playing ‘Pablo Picasso’. I’ve been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.
Jonathan Richman
At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Considering Messi's quality and everything he represent

Considering Messi’s quality and everything he represents, I don’t think I’ve seen him playing with a guy following him around the pitch the entire time with the sole purpose of not letting him play.
Zico
I started playing soccer when I was 6 years old and started lifting weights when I was 16, so it’s not like I never exercised.
Finn Balor
It’s been years and years and years I’ve been playing the drums, and they’re still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.
Charlie Watts
In the barber shop you start playing checkers, and eventually you want to learn how to play chess. The pieces look a little more interesting. You’re doing more things. I’m pretty good at it.
O. J. Mayo
There’s only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that’s by getting in the sand.
Kerri Walsh Jennings
I don’t care who you are, if you’re not feeling anxious before playing in a final, you’re not a real person. I don’t care who you are.
Marcelo
I was in ‘Bigg Boss’ were people called me cute and bubbly, but I landed in ‘Jai Ho’ playing a villain.
Sana Khan
I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ’cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
Dave Grohl
I was a national level golf player. I gave up golf after a while when I wanted to model, as I would tan while playing it. I love watching movies and hanging out with my friends in Delhi.
Rakul Preet Singh
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Duke of Wellington
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
Bill Gates
I feel comfortable on and off the court, happy in my own skin, just really comfortable with the way I’m playing my tennis.
Ashleigh Barty
There’s not just playing on a Saturday and you receiving your money at the end of the month. There’s so, so much more to football than what people see. My agent told me when I was 15, 16, ‘you can have all the ability in the world but if you’re not mentally strong enough football will swallow you up.’
Danny Rose
I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?
Christopher Lee
I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing – doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rafael Nadal
I have no problems with my eyes. It was because when I became big, I suddenly I found myself playing on stage with 200,000 people, and that is scary. I remember my manager told me just put on a pair of sunglasses, and that should mitigate the panic. So I tried it, and it worked.
DJ Snake
You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You’re going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you’re lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.
Lexi Thompson
It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.
Mickey Mantle
Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won’t have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.
Tom Jenkinson
So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we’re playing really tight now.
Matt Cameron
I do have a way of playing piano where it’s very melodic and emotional, but then often it’s great if whoever’s singing doesn’t sing exactly what’s in the piano melody, but maybe it’s connected in some way.
Aaron Dessner
As a human, you don’t have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it’s tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.
Gemma Chan
The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it’s been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them – blogs, say, or Wikipedia – can become influential.
James Surowiecki
Playing games can contribute to making you happy, perhaps even without therapy.
Gyles Brandreth
You only grow old when you stop playing.
Xzibit
The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
Vince Gill
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
Ryan Cabrera
I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront – not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
Aaron Diehl
Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain
I liked 'Brighton Beach Memoirs,' which I did with Neil

I liked ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs,’ which I did with Neil Simon. I kind of was playing him, as Eugene Morris Jerome, and I played that a few times at the very beginning of my career.
Matthew Broderick
I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though – playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I’d be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don’t know why.
Rafael Nadal
I’m really into playing games on my phone.
Buster Posey
While everyone was out playing dodgeball, I was lying on the blacktop waiting for a UFO to take me out of elementary school.
Alex Hirsch
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
Elia Kazan
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold
I’m just playing my game and trying to help my team win. Whatever happens, happens.
Aaron Donald
You’re playing worse and worse every day and right now you’re playing like it’s next month.
Herb Brooks
It’s definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys.
Tom Felton
Playing games is the best time of your life, and the more games you get, the better it is.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
Arnold Palmer
I was an 18-year-old lad playing in a Scottish League Cup final at Hampden in front of 60,000 against Celtic. That’s an experience I will never forget.
James Maddison
You want to stop playing ‘Fortnite,’ man, because you aren’t having fun anymore? Good. Go watch someone else. Go play another game.
Ninja
Playing my music to fans and people enjoying it is what matters; that makes me happy as an artiste. If you start worrying about awards, you will lose your creativity.
DJ Snake
You’re playing a game, whether it’s Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It’s impossible to do well unless you’re having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there’s pressure. But I just look at it as fun.
Derek Jeter
In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ I was just playing and having a good time.
Mary Badham
I’m now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I’ve gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
John Fogerty
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
It’s important to make sure your players have the mindset that playing international cricket is still the ultimate form of cricket.
AB de Villiers
I grew up five minutes from the stadium and watched it being built. I’d play football right outside and look up at this huge stadium with all the cranes and building work and think, ‘One day, when it’s finished, I need to be playing in here.’
Raheem Sterling
I’m not angry, I’m not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I’m more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
Calvin Harris
When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.
Pete Sampras