Games Quotes - Page 24

What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.

When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done.

If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.

Those who play a safe game die very safely.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.

We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.

Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.