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«Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.»
Author: Bob Uecker | About: Ability, Play, Sports | Keywords: big league, feat
«Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.»
«Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.»
Author: J. Russell Lynes (Writer) | About: Play | Keywords: camouflage, conceal, revealed, to seem
«A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.»
Author: Wayne Gretzky | About: Play, Sports | Keywords: hockey, hockey player, player, plays, puck
«A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.»
«All work and no play is not good for the soul»
Author: Felix Sabates | About: Play, Soul, Work
«Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.»
«A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something»
Author: Stephen Leacock | About: Play | Keywords: sportsman
«All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy»
Author: Proverb | About: Play, Work | Keywords: boy, dull, jack, jacks
«A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.»
Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | About: Play

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