Games Quotes - Page 27

Basketball's a game of mistakes.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

It’s all fun and games until someone loses a testicle. —T-SHIRT

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble.

Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you

If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will open doors for you.

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

I was really careful in making monsters faint rather than die. I think that young people playing games have an abnormal concept about dying. They start to lose and say, ‘I’m dying.’ It’s not right for kids to think about a concept of death that way. They need to treat death with more respect.

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

Instead of yelling and spanking, which dont work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.

The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.