Games Quotes - Page 64

It's not so simple to just stay in the moment and trust your game and your strength that you can turn it around.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

Changing the game is a mindset.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

Life is more fun if you play games.

Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or heard about. [It's] research and documentation clarifies so many of the personalities and events that took place before 'my time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's quote: 'Whoever would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball' should be supplanted by [this] biography of Landis.

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

People go, 'Hey, did you do anything special for the Super Bowl?' Well no, I like to think I do the same amount of work every week getting ready for a game.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

It doesn't matter what you've done, but what you're going to do the next game, and that's what I'm focused on.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

The thing that concerns me the most is when I hear that people are making a lot of money a lot of ways except for the athletes, whether it's on the bowl games, the TV contracts, the conferences, the schools, the coaches, however you want to say it.

Now I've probably got to be more aggressive and pick up where [Marbury] left off, but I'm just going to take it how it comes. I'm not going to force it. I'm going to let the game come to me.

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.