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159 quotesChampions keep playing until they get it right.
Perseverance
Billie Jean King
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You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Basketball
Bobby Knight
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Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.
Science and Scientists
Cornelius Krasel
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Army and Navy
Karl Kraus
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Life and Living
Tom Lehrer
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If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
Practice
Ivan Lendl
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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Life and Living
H. T. Leslie
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Oscar Levant
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If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
Hell
Jerry Lee Lewis
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Circumstance
Jack London
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I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
Perseverance
Jim Lovell
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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for a player to break.
Rules
John Madden
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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.
Mind
Maxwell Maltz
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Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
Baseball
Billy Martin
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Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Victory
Jackie Mason
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I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
Confidence
John McEnroe
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Critics and Criticism
Wilson Mizner
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Amusement
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Acting and Actors
Mary Tyler Moore
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
Theater
John Mortimer
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Politicians and Politics
Richard M. Nixon
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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Prejudice
Richard M. Nixon
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Win or lose, playing at all is winning.
Winners and Winning
Wolfgang Nording
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The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
Family
Sandra Day O'connor
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Playing safe is only playing.
Competition
Chuck Olson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun