Games Quotes - Page 113

You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

I think life is a big game we play.

I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game

All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.

You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee.

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.

Sometimes you don't feel the hits from the game until you're at home on the couch.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off the dribble. That's today game, and that's what I try to do.