Games Quotes - Page 62

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

About a minute-and-a-half to go. He goes on a down-and-in pass. As soon as he caught it, I really puffed him, and his head snapped and the ball flew, and Chuck Weber fell on it. I clenched my fist, I turned around, and I closed my eyes and I said, 'This f-in game is over.'

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

People always say he can run and he can jump. So can a deer and you wouldn't put a deer in the game.

Messi is the best in the world. Cristiano is a goalscorer. Messi is more taltented, more complete, tactically and footballwise. Cristiano isn't doing those runs anymore like at United. Messi takes more part in the game, I'd always prefer him in my team.

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving.

Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

The game cannot be won, only played.