The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark. M. R. James
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. Christopher Fry
As Duke Ellington once said, "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton." [...] About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck. Babe Ruth
Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom. Bill O'Reilly