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Games Quotes - Page 96

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

"Jerry Seinfeld: Heard the one about the reunion?". Interview with Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2009.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.67, Penguin

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

"Tribeca Interview: Ice Cube’s Straight Outta LA". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2010.

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

Howard Staunton (1873). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.34

Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.

Henry Cloud (2005). “How to Get a Date Worth Keeping: Be Dating in Six Months Or Your Money Back”, p.77, Zondervan

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1868-1885”

He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him.

"QPR boss Harry Redknapp slams 'overweight' Adel Taarabt after leaving him out of Liverpool defeat" by Liam Prenderville, www.mirror.co.uk. October 19, 2014.