Games Quotes - Page 185

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.

Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.

Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.

I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.

When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say.

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.

We've got to stay on our [animation] game, make sure we still remember how to animate.

I want to win football games.

It's a crazy feeling when people know who you are and respect your game. It's much appreciated.

For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

I think I can change the game.

The money game is not like any other game. You cannot choose whether you'll play, for the money game is the only game in town.

Modeling is an industry that judges you purely by looks. Today you are on the top of your game and tomorrow a new face arrives and all eyes are on her. It happens every season.

Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.