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«I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.»
Author: Bill Dickey (Baseball Player) | About: Play | Keywords: defensive, hit home, home run
«It is better to play than do nothing»
Author: Confucius | About: Play | Keywords: do-nothing
«I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
«I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.»
«It's so much fun playing her [Ling], but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.»
Author: Lucy Liu (Actress) | About: Actors and acting, Fear, Play | Keywords: bite off, ling, run away
«I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.»
«It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.»
«I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.»
Author: Michael Jordan (Basketball Player) | About: Play | Keywords: competitive, get in
«I decided to join Barcelona because it's a sunny place. They are building for the future and want to win titles, and they have the conditions to do it. And I wanted to go there because it is an honour to play in the shirt of a team who have had great»
Author: Ronaldo (Soccer Player) | About: Cities, Future, Play | Keywords: Barcelona, honour, shirt, sunny, titles
«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.»
Author: Stephen Wright (Actor, Writer) | About: Play | Keywords: car window, harmonica, stick, window

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