On the House of Lords' debate on Lord Ross's Divorce Bill (1610), as quoted in King Charles the Second (1931) by Arthur Bryant
Source: Advice to Young Musicians
“Honestly Jace, don't you know better than to play with broken glass?”
Clary to Jace, pg. 466
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“If your team is going to win, you need to play better than the other quarterback.”
ESPN The Magazine, September 2001 http://espn.go.com/talent/danpatrick/s/2001/0822/1242493.html
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
An abbreviated version of a quote by California politician Dianne Feinstein, from an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine in October 1985 https://books.google.com/books?id=zmxNAQAAIAAJ&dq=You+have+to+learn+the+rules+of+the+game+and+then+you+have+to+play+better+than+anyone+else&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22rules+of+the+game%22, on the topic of women running for public office. The original was: "... I really do have staying power. That's important for women who run for office. When you get in there and push for a lot of new things all at once and don't get them, you don't just leave. You have to commit, be a team player, learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else."
Misattributed
“Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do — creating.”
On becoming a dance teacher, and creating her own moves, p. 44
My Heart Belongs (1976)
As quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 239.
“Well, that I'm not playing better.”
When asked by Gene Lees what accounted for the melancholy in his playing
Unsourced
As quoted in "Change of Pace" by Bill Nunn, Jr. in The New Pittsburgh Courier (August 10, 1963), p. 22
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1963</big>
