Top 1200 Playing Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play.

When your role players start stepping up and playing good basketball, it's a good sign.

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

I wasn't just playing football on the street. I grew up on the street.

My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.

I was following Marseille and looking up to my compatriot playing there, Didier Drogba, and my team was Marseille.

There's a sports saying, if you aren't playing offense, you're playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix.

I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

Playing for Boston Bulldogs in front of 700 to 800 fans was obviously different from playing for Liverpool in front of the Kop and 40,000 passionate Reds.

I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against. (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

I've been working hard to get playing time, just for whatever. I'm up for whatever I can earn.

Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.

I understand it must be hard to realize that the playing field you are collecting all your trophies from is not a level playing field, but that doesn't mean you can just make inaccurate statements.

There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to every MySpace page, so what's the difference? It's just noise that you filter out.

The only way to shut people up is just by winning and just playing basketball.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

It's going to be tough but I think I was more nervous about playing NRL than I will be playing this match simply because I've got Billy Slater in front of me and there were a lot of expectations.

Playing unselfish basketball is a core component of our basketball culture and high assist totals are a great indicator that we are playing the right way.

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

I refused to let my brother down, because he sacrificed for me. And I always told him, 'As long as one of us playing football, we both playing football.'

A lot of people know me from my character that I play on 'Superstore,' Mateo, and I'm not interested in playing straight roles. I'm all about playing queer roles.

I think that's the difference in my game compared to some other guys. I just believe in playing in the flow of the game, playing the right way with ball movement.

Obviously Messi is one of the best players in the world, if not the best player in the world. Looking up to him when you're young and now playing against him, it was very nerve-racking for me - especially when he would come up on my side, my heart would be beating faster and faster.

If I get my teammates going early, then my shots usually open up. Come off pick and roll and make the pocket pass on the first one. Then it's like OK, does the defender step up now? Then next time I may have the layup. So, just playing the game like that. Reading and reacting and not thinking too much.

I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.

When I warm up now though?especially on center court?there is usually music playing, so I don't really mess with music.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

Consumers don't give a damn about what device they're playing on. They just want to play it everywhere. They want to be playing on the console and then take it off to the bus.

I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.

When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.

I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone.

A lot of the metal bands that were around when Metallica put out 'The Black Album,' now they're playing clubs, and Metallica is playing stadiums.

What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

I spent the first 10 years of my career playing psychotic Scotsman. I'm still playing psychotic Scotsmen really, they've just become a bit funnier.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

I grew up playing squash. I have all these squash trophies in my room... I was, like, third in the country.

A player playing with confidence is better than a player playing with doubt in his head.

Initially, I was worried about playing Hansa, because Hansa is someone who talks a lot but does nothing. But after I started playing the character, it was such a relief.

One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas

I started when I was five, and grew up playing against adults and against men most of the time.

When I was 14, I started playing in the bigger clubs in Holland and when I was 17, I started playing all of the festivals there.

One may assume that playing a transgender is different, but I'm simply playing a third gender. Why should it make my acting process any different?

Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.

I started playing on a tiny table when I was 3 and then started playing properly when I was 10 or 11.

If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.

These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.