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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.


Theodore Roosevelt

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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Our kids play hard and when you play hard, you don't notice people in the gym.
AL GUTHMAN Death likes it when you play hard to get.
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND I’d like to remind you that trying to play “hard to get” doesn't work when you’re already �...
JUSTIN DEVINE It's uncalled for when people act like that. You can play hard within the rules. You don't have to b...
JAKE SCOTT You look at Barbara, Will, all of us, this is when Connecticut starts to play. When the tournaments ...
ANN STROTHER When you play a Division I team you want to play them when you're good.
SHAWN NELSON When you don't play much you want to contribute when you do. I was really excited to play.
JAMIE MCLENNAN When it comes to basketball, it's not that hard. You gotta go out and play like you gotta play and l...
SHANNON BROWN When we share the ball like that, we're a hard team to play. We attacked the basket and when you pla...
JOEY MEYER It's hard to play basketball when nothing is inside of you.
BEN MCLEMORE We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don'...
FRED FRITH I definitely felt the momentum shift. When you're down you have to give it all you've got and play a...
BRI MCNALLEN When you get paid to do something you would do for free, work becomes play.
LORRIN L. LEE We didn't play well. When you don't play well, you don't deserve to win.
AL MCCULLOCK When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win.
LORII MYERS I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.
GEORGE HARRISON I think it's sad for girls' hockey when you have refs that take away the kids' hard work and don't l...
KAREN EMMA I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.
HUNTER HAYES You never expect to have a 10-run game. You play hard and hope you play well and come out on top. Ob...
BILLY BRYANT When you play for so long, you see it's going to come to an end and you wonder, Is your talent dimin...
CAL RIPKEN Every game you play when you're at the bottom of the table is difficult and you must play them like ...
CRAIG WESTON Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
BONNIE TYLER Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are prayin...
CHARLES WILLIAMS Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are prayin...
CHARLES WILLIAMS We got whipped. They're better than us. When you play against a team that has 15 kids over 200 pound...
AL WISNOSKI It doesn't matter who we play. You have to play them all to get there. San Jose, when they play at S...
FERNANDO CLAVIJO When you play your big rival, if you don't get up to play, you shouldn't be competing. Whenever we p...
DAVE HARSHMAN We know we need to play hard every night, instead of when we want to play.
JAY YOUNGBLOOD Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
THEODOR ADORNO Study hard, work hard and play hard, too,
BARBARA BUSH I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team...
DAK PRESCOTT We'll work on that next time. I just went out there and played hard. When you play with these guys, ...
LUKE ZELLER Play by the rule, have fun as you rule, work hard as the rule.
EPHDAN Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
DEIRDRE O'KANE When you play, never mind who listens to you.
ROBERT SCHUMANN Jimmy had that genius; that mysterious certain something. When you watched him play, you wanted to l...
HARVEY KEITEL We work hard in practice and just do what coach tell us, ... You play how you practice.
DAVID MENDOZA Coach told us at the beginning of the game we were going to play (a) small lineup, so you must be re...
BENO UDRIH What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when...
HARSHA BHOGLE When you're playing a good team, you need to play all 60 minutes. Not 45, not 50, not 53; you need t...
DEREK MILLER I like to work hard and play hard.
ALAN J. DIXON You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play
WARREN BEATTY They started serving a lot tougher. We fought hard, but it's hard to play defense when you have no b...
CARLY CURTIS What a fabulous play. When you make a play like that, it gets the adrenaline going.
FLOYD BURNSED I think the players play extremely hard for Jay and that isn't always easy when you are struggling.
DAVE HEEKE When you're playing as a true freshman, you just got to play the next play if you make a mistake. Yo...
RAY RICE I'm at a complete loss. When we play hard and play with some passion we're pretty good. I'm truly at...
DEREK WAUGH I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who p...
CESC FABREGAS Being able to play in the middle infield, you play there, you pretty much can play anywhere else, .....
ABRAHAM NUNEZ The knee just isn't 100 percent, ... It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at ...
SERENA WILLIAMS I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they...
ENYA We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons,...
STEVE YZERMAN You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
JEANETTE WINTERSON If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.
ELLEN POMPEO You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
WARREN BEATTY When we get cold (today), we've just got to strap up. We've got to play defense as hard as we can un...
CLIFF HAMMONDS It's hard to shoot 67 percent when you're in the gym by yourself. So that tells me we didn't play we...
CLIFF REED It's hard when you don't play very much because you want to contribute. Any ice time I get behind [L...
JAMIE MCLENNAN I like doing all the dirty work, all the hustling. I don't mind my role at all. I've always believed...
KYLE PEABODY When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All you can do is play how you know how to play,
CLINT DEMPSEY You can't get caught up in what they're trying to do. You just have to play your coverage when it's ...
DRAYTON FLORENCE That's what you play for. You play all year in a lot of games. This is the spot you play for.
GRADY SIZEMORE It doesn't matter sometimes whether you win or lose a game. You just want to come out and make sure ...
LAURIE CARTER I do everything from Men at Work right through to the songs I'm working on at the moment, ... It's g...
COLIN HAY It hinders you when you're able to play anywhere.
CHRIS WOODWARD We've got to learn to come out and play hard at the beginning of games. We have to play hard for all...
DINO SIMONI If you win 50 or more games, ... you should only have to play two exhibitions. Forty to 49, you play...
BRENT BARRY Play hard to get. You should be.
ADDISON MOORE Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a vi...
JOHN FORSYTHE Theodore Roosevelt said Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are. This is great advi...
BRIAN TRACY I just know he had a stomach virus or flu symptoms last week and sometimes those things stick with y...
EDDIE OLCZYK It's hard to play competitively in Canada and still be a full-time student, so when I heard from IU,...
JANIS PARDY Hopefully, (people) will recognize what did during the season. When we play hard, we can play with a...
BRANDON WALLACE You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is w...
WARREN BEATTY You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.
LAURA MONCUR It's what you expect when you play a Dick Bennett-coached team.
TRENT JOHNSON When you have smoky eyes, you want to play your lips down.
ELIZABETH THOMAS By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
JIM ROHN By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
E JAMES ROHN By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
E. JAMES ROHN Work hard, play hard, stay hard. I coined it first back 1993.
SCOTT DEUTY You're a professional, you have pride, and you have a contract to go out and play hard. But we do ha...
RAFER ALSTON It's tough to play when you don't have the energy.
SIDNEY CROSBY It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you let them stay with you, they'll play hard.
JAMES FULLER When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.
ALAN SMITH When you are successful, everyone comes in and tries to play their best game against you. That's har...
BOB SCHULZ It makes a big difference when you have players who play for two months and others that play for 10.
KATIE MALACARA It makes a big difference when you have players who play for two months and others that play for 10,
KATIE HALL It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
JACK NICKLAUS I think everyone needs to win their one-on-ones. When you look at film, there were so many games whe...
JAKE HUTTON If you play with a fool at home he'll play with you in the market.
VIKRANT PARSAI They aren't the team you want to play short-handed. You have to play basically a perfect game agains...
BERNARD ROBINSON We know we can play with any team in the league. We've proven it before, and when we play hard, we p...
JOZEF STUMPEL Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. Whe...
ANN MILLER You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.
GARY HOPKINS You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves wh...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am a part of everything that I have read.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and sel...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but w...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Believe you can and you're halfway there.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT With self-discipline most anything is possible.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies o...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don'...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Put out the light.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT