Top 1200 Playing Hard To Get Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

The hole was playing downwind and I managed to get a good bounce.

I'm playing in the World Series. Can't get any better than this.

Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.

Get ready for 'Les Mis 2'... I'm playing 'Fat Cosette.'

I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in front of audiences, I don't think that anyone would want to play music. That's where you get all your gratification. It's just something else to be up on stage, playing music that you wrote and having people enjoy it - and have it mean something to them also.

I guess when we get older, we try so hard to get our game back. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't.

I've seen a lot of guys who can't get beyond their playing days.

It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

Playing with Phil Mickelson, it doesn't get any better than that.

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.

Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.

When you're playing an exhibition, you're kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.

I want to encourage young people to get up off the sofa and get out there - as long as you want something hard enough, you can do it.

I think Memento movie was hard because people didn't get it, they just didn't understand it. Not from the stage when we read the script and liked it. It's sort of a famous story now how we finished the movie and showed it to distributors and nobody wanted it. So it wasn't just they didn't get the script, they really didn't even understand the movie when it was done. But I think that was a particularly hard one. I don't think it was harder because we were girls, but I do think obviously there are particular challenges to working in a male-dominated industry.

When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.

The only way you can get match fitness is by playing games.

My expectation for the first year was to work hard, and whenever I get a chance, whenever I get on the floor, to do my best.

It's hard for me to see myself as meaningful, but people seem to like my music, so who knows. Maybe my music is empowering some more young women to pick up songwriting/playing.

I didn't join a band and didn't get famous to stop playing music.

It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen.

I try to walk when I'm playing golf so I get some exercise in.

If I changed the mindset of some players or my mindset helped some players to be better - maybe. But I don't think it was me changing anything for the club because playing for Manchester United means playing with the pressure, playing with the responsibility.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.

I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

If you're playing basketball, you're going to get your shot blocked.

I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time.

When we were making 'Teddy Perkins,' we were playing with a lot of horror tropes and things you might've seen in movies before, but we get the ability to subvert expectations or get a comedic element out of a horror moment.

I get up at 5 A.M., and I train hard. I've got two young children, so I have to get up early. But I like it.

My mom wasn't so much such a great cook. But I don't know, I think I have a very strong mother, and it's funny, because both of my sisters - I have two sisters, and I'm the baby, but they all work hard. I'm not sure where I get it from, and I'm not sure where they get it from, but they must get it from somewhere... I like to work.

Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

People get confused because we all make a lot of money and it seems crazy to the general public, but this is something that we all love to do. We play this game because we love it and if we didn't get paid for it, most of us probably would still be playing.

Started playing indoor volleyball in 5th grade. Started playing club volleyball when I was 15. Played in high school and at Florida Gulf Coast University. Started playing beach volleyball after graduating from FGCU.

A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room.

I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.

In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders' eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that the hard way.

It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.

I'm just trying to get used to playing everywhere on the floor.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

What wins a fight is training hard, working hard, and that's what I do: Train hard every time. Being pretty or not is not the point.

I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.

What Donald Trump has been concerned about, what he`s talked about, is when we get deals that don`t level the playing field, when we get deals that aren`t the kinds of best deals we can get, we want good deals, and those are free trade deals to lower the barriers between trade between two countries.

It's good to be involved as well as everyone to be involved in everything to help your team work hard when you work hard you get a good result.

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

Playing quarterback you're always going to get booed - eventually.

Because [Russel Westbrook] is so rare and impacts the game in so many different ways, you see the usage and the amount of time he's playing and say, 'is this sustainable?' I look at it the other way. Are we playing the right way, are we playing together as a team, and what are his minutes like? This is not a guy that's playing 42 minutes a night. When he goes out there he's going to play to who he is, and I think he also understands that in order for our team to be the best we can be he's got to incorporate and help everybody grow as players.

Everything you get in life, you have to work hard for. And if you're not willing to get out of bed and work then you're not going to progress.

You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.

I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We are constantly surprised by this noise and television. It means that's what we are going to get, because we always get everything eventually.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?