Antony Beevor Quotes

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

I'm a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

I'm a person who plays Ping-Pong once in a while.

I have a study at the back of the house, overlooking our garden. It's tiny, just wide enough to fit my desk in. The walls are covered with pin boards and art postcards from galleries all over the world, including Tate, MoMA, and Lenbachhaus.

I love playing ping pong.

It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

I don't do the things other people call "play."

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

As long as I'm having fun I'm going to play.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

New York City is my playground.

One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

There is no real difference between work and play - it’s all living.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.