“Cris didn't want to play. He never played.”
The Golden Man (1954)
Context: Cris didn't want to play. He never played. He was off in a world of his own, a world into which none of them could come. He never joined in anything, games or chores or family activities. He was by himself always. Remote, detached, aloof. Seeing past everyone and everything — that is, until all at once something clicked and he momentarily rephased, reentered their world briefly.
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“I got some hands I didn't want to play.”
2010s, 2011, Q&A with Former President George W. Bush (January 2011)
“When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.”
Source: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 23 : "To Plant One Rose —", p. 280
Context: When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. To me it wasn't parchesi played under parchesi rules. Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?
Many a writer has said that I was "unfair." Well, that's not my understanding of the word. When my toes were stepped on, I stepped right back.
Magic Johnson — reported in David Steele (May 9, 1997) "Magic Says Bird Will Succeed", San Francisco Chronicle, p. B8.
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“Man is opposed to fair play: he wants it all, and he wants it his way.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill
Mozart brauchte kein Programm für seine Musik. Er musizierte und sang mit der göttlichen Leichtigkeit eines Kindes.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
On the song "Yesterday", written by Paul McCartney
Playboy interview (1980)
“Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian