Playing Up Quotes

• When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

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  Tommy Lasorda

  Winning   Play   Names  

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

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  Amartya Sen

  Thinking   Long   Role Models  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

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  Joe Greene

  Football   Pain   Team  

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• I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

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  Chris Lilley

  People   Cameras   Fans  

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.

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  Louis Armstrong

  Music   Couple   Blow  

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• The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

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  Andre Malraux

  Inspirational   Leader   Firsts  

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• Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

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  Muddy Waters

  Money   Play   People  

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• You know how you're supposed to choose between playing up your eyes or your lips? I always choose lips. I love the drama.

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  Leighton Meester

  Drama   Eye   Lips  

  FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Aug 09, 2013

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