Games Quotes - Page 166

The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS.

It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.

You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game.

If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.

I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.

My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.

When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.

The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.

Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.

If you had said before the game we would get three points, I would have said you'd had too much gin.

The week preceding the game is just as important, if not more important, to prepare yourself mentally to make sure you know the ins and outs of the opposition. It's all about getting ready for Jacksonville. It's a one-game season.

He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

Always consider giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game... And if it's a game, then you need to win.

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Through a lot of conversations with the Minister [Louis Farrakhan] you've got to know when to say something. But if you are forever going to be afraid to say anything, then you become irrelevant - as a force. I mean, so the God-given gift that you got, you're not a relevant player in the game - you're just a dude whose got money, got a big house and some cars.

When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.

You don't wait 30 minutes before a game to tell a guy he's traded.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.