Games Quotes - Page 19

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

I get to do something that millions of people across the world are going to see and enjoy and have fun with. People I'm never going to meet, people I'm never going to see, but when they finish their job tonight, they're going to be playing one of my games and that makes me feel good.

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang, I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game.

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.

That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game.

I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.

Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Play the game with a smile.

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.