“Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.”
“We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels – Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges – is in our own self-interest. That’s where the pool of talent is – and also of fans.”
“No one man is superior to the game.”
“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”
“I’ve been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I’ve been addicted to video games ever since.”
“Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.”
“I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live – I don’t think I’ve ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.”
“To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It’s part of the game. There’s always room to grow; there’s room to improve.”
“Even though it feels like you are so far away from the big leagues, my love for the game kept me motivated to get through the hard times in the minors.”
“My goal every year is to come in and be consistent. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first game of the year or it’s the last game of the year.”
“In my early work, my time in the batting cage, that’s serious, and that’s when I feel like I’m really working. That’s where I have to lock in on my approach, make sure my mechanics are right, and make sure my mindset is right for the upcoming game. But then, when the game comes up, it’s a game! You’re supposed to have fun when you play games.”
“To put on the pinstripe – it’s extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.”
“I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It’s a thinking man’s game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.”
“Ever since I was a little kid, that intrigued me. The game within the game was the biggest thing. A lot of people don’t see the little things we do within a game.”
“Just being in a video game is an honor, and being on the cover, I can’t really describe it.”
“When you come to a game, it’s supposed to be fun for the players and the fans.”
“The mental game is what separates the good players from the great players. So anything I can do to get that mental edge to help me stay my best, I’m gonna try and do it.”
“I have a short time to play this game. I’m trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.”
“This is a crazy game we play. You’re going to have those times you can’t get out, and those times where you can do everything right, and the ball does not fall.”
“When I was younger, I’d always forget stuff. I think there was probably 4-5 times where we’d drive 30 minutes to a town for the baseball tournament, and all of a sudden, I’d get to the field and look in my bag, and I didn’t have my cleats. So my dad had to race all the way home to get my cleats and get back before the game started so I could play.”
“One thing I really liked about David Winfield, man, just… the way he played the game, and such a class act he was on and off the field.”
“When you’re facing a different guy every at-bat, he’s coming at you with his best stuff. There’s no warm-up; there’s no ‘see a pitch.’ You’ve got to be locked in from the very first pitch… The biggest thing is do your homework before the game starts.”
“I get the normal stats, like tackles and pass completion and high-intensity runs. I get them after every game to see how similar they are to every game and to make sure I’m hitting the targets – or not too far away from them.”
“I like to be involved as much as I can in the game, and in the middle, you’re definitely the heartbeat of the team. When you’re on the right, you can go minutes without seeing the ball, and that’s a long time when you’re out on the pitch.”
“We have to take every game as it comes.”
“You have to be on top of your game, train hard every day, and try to convince the boss throughout the week that he should put you in the team.”
“I need to be playing well, be involved in the game, and taking matches by the scruff of the neck.”
“It’s nice to have it recognised that I’m doing well and to have people saying good things about me, but I try not to take too much interest. I just try to focus on my own game and what I need to do to improve.”
“You have to take each game as it comes and not get ahead of yourself.”
“You would want to play in every game if possible, but I am realistic.”
“I think a top-class midfielder needs to be able to tackle, get up and down the pitch, pass, create opportunities, and score goals. That’s why I try to do everything; that’s what I judge my game on.”
“There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they’re taking air out of the footballs I’m throwing, and I think that’s a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.”
“This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.”
“As you get older, and this is a young man’s game, and people say, ‘Well, there’s no way I can keep up running the way I’m running; there’s no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.’ It’s the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.”
“When you’re competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is – whether it’s an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.”
“’Molly’s Game’ was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women’s moguls.”
“I love keeping. I’m in the game all the time. I see angles that I wouldn’t normally see, and I feel part of what the captain does.”
“I try and watch the ball closely. I’ve played the game for many years now, and I know my talent will take over if I just watch the ball and enjoy myself out there.”
“To cross the line for the team, to have an impact on winning the game – that’s why I play this game.”
“I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.”
“I just try and earn my right to get on top of the bowlers, and that is how I play every game.”
“I try and keep my feet on the ground and keep working at my game.”
“It’s tough at slip. The ball doesn’t come to you very often. So from that perspective, I enjoy keeping more – you’re in the game the whole time.”
“I know nothing will compare to that feeling of scoring hundreds in a big game.”
“It’s not really part of the game to say, ‘Oh, it’s a batter’s game; it’s a batter’s game’ – I don’t know why it goes on. It’s a beautiful game that’s greatly competitive between bat and ball.”
“I’m not a nice guy on the field, and I’ve never really respected a guy who’s been a ‘nice guy’ on the field. I want opposition to be hard, to play to win the game for their team.”
“This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don’t know, but when I’m not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I’m not playing.”
“I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.”
“When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn’t work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.”
“As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.”
“There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.”
“People don’t understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface – all of that goes into how the game is actually played.”
“When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a person who’s made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She’s still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women’s soccer can’t be measured.”
“The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.”
“You can’t show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.”
“I just think you need to believe in yourself – be offensive, but still have some nervousness in your body before any important game.”
“I don’t think rock ‘n roll is necessarily a young man’s game. I think Neil Young is just as rock’n’roll now as he was in his 20s. I’d like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.”
“I don’t think rock ‘n’ roll is necessarily a young man’s game.”
“I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium – at a baseball game – which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America – singing the National Anthem.”
“I think that governments are going to get disrupted by the blockchain. I think in the same way that the Internet forced everyone to evolve, the Blockchain is going to change the game again.”
“In high school, I was so obsessed with the movie that I started an actual ‘Highlander’ club with my two best friends, Mike Levy and David Sirota. What began as a few geeks hitting each other with swords we made in woodshop soon became a school-wide game with 20 people playing. It became so disruptive that the administration had to shut it down.”
“I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock ‘n’ roll spirit, swagger to the game.”
“McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he’s still popular.”
“Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later ’cause the cards are a different color.”
“This is the ultimate con game – I’m having fun and people pay me to do it.”
“To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.”
“In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game – like chess, where you have the knowledge as you’re composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.”
“For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.”
“I’m a huge fan of the game. It’s beyond a fringe benefit of obviously getting to work at the league office. I watch a ton of games in person, on television, on all forms of new media I follow the league. And so it’s just beyond my wildest imaginations to me to now be the commissioner of the NBA.”
“I had definitely missed the literary development game with Paper Lantern Lit, and writing exclusively wasn’t giving me complete fulfillment.”
“I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”
“The best decisions are taken quickly and well. You can prepare yourself, have all aspects of the game thought through, but the one who shines on the pitch is the one with intuition.”
“I believe in enjoying the game. If you make it too much work, that’s not good.”
“I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what’s a groin? What’s an adductor? That’s how I look at things. I feel like if you just continue to take care of your body, working out, making sure you’re in shape and you stay on top of your game, you can play as long as you want.”
“I love ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“I always loved cars. I used to play ‘Need for Speed’ all the time… any racing game.”
“There’s no way the writing staff of ‘Game of Thrones’ haven’t read ‘The Art of War.’ There’s definitely an influence on ‘Game of Thrones’ from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies.”
“There’s a lot of ‘Game of Thrones’ stuff used in a lot of pastiches. I don’t know if I’ve seen a Lego ‘Game of Thrones’ yet, but there must be one. And there’s an animated thing that’s been going on for quite some time, and Littlefinger is a newsreader in it, and it’s great.”
“One thing I don’t want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I’m really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on that for a salary. I think it would be such a different game if I had to write a book that has to sell well.”
“I think, like most gamers, I talk a good game.”
“I’ve always loved video games. I played ‘Ms. Pac-man’ with my dad, and I Ioved ‘Galaga’ and ‘Tempest’ and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he’s playing ‘Ms. Pac-man’ and hold the phone up to the game.”
“If you’re a game company, you want to create a singular gaming experience, and part of that is doing stuff that nobody else is doing. If you’re trying to create a game that feels different, you’re going to create a lead that feels different. It’s not going to be just another white guy.”
“I think that it’s interesting how shows like ‘Walking Dead’ or even ‘Game of Thrones,’ with all its fantasy elements, have become so popular. Sometimes, though, I get a little bit annoyed because the whole nerd thing taking over and is now cool, and it wasn’t cool when I was younger.”
“I have a very distinct memory of ‘ExciteBike’ and making my own courses. I had an obsession with that game.”
“When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.”
“I think public sector banks need to have greater private participation of people who have skin in the game.”
“I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.”
“Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.”
“Pitches are like pages of a book; they’re so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I’ll do it differently later.”
“It’s a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You’re not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It’s all negative thoughts going into the game.”
“I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.”
“I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that’s the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no.”
“The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. That’s why you are there. For the game, you can’t go away from the game and beat your chest. People are there to watch the game. You are there to supplement, not to override or overwhelm.”
“People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.”
“If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that’s good or bad for the game, and if there aren’t any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.”
“The genius of our institutions is democratic – baseball is a democratic game.”
“Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.”
“I hear people saying ‘the way the game should be played’. Rubbish. That’s the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.”
“When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it’s a completely different ball game.”
“If you’re in the game long enough, you’re going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you’ll be toast.”
“In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.”
“The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.”
“Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!”
“I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.”
“My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.”
“The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.”
“One of my favorite sci-fi books is ‘Ender’s Game’ by Orson Scott Card. I would recommend it to anyone who loves sci-fi. It’s a perfect intro to sci-fi.”
“We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.”
“Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.”
“On ‘Game of Thrones,’ I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we’d see photos of what we’d shot online and think, ‘My God – people really care.’”
“On ‘Game of Thrones,’ we always shoot away from the green screen because it’s bloody expensive to shoot green screen.”
“The weird thing is, ‘Game of Thrones,’ people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it’d be like a small guerilla operation. ‘Thor,’ we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn’t afford to be there any longer, because we were airlifting the entire contents of Hollywood into this country.”
“’Game of Thrones’ was the first fantasy thing I’ve done, and like a lot of people who enjoy the show watching it, I didn’t expect to respond to that world, but when I started doing it, I really started to love it, started to realize that some of the things I’m naturally drawn to.”
“It was great to do and it’s exciting to do those things. That’s another thing, that one enjoys the game.”
“Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.”
“Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile… before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.”
“I’m really happy with ‘WWE ’12.’ It’s amazing. The fact that I’m in a video game is incredible; it’s a dream come true.”
“It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there’s still this idea that the reader doesn’t take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn’t do it because he’s not making any money.”
“I’m not a starstuck dude. I’ve been in this game too long for that, but I do respect and acknowledge real work and real work ethic.”
“My brother does a series of movies called ‘The Purge,’ and they have the third one coming out this year, and then also he’ll be starring in the second season of ‘Secrets and Lies.’ We want each other to win because we are a team, and this is how we’ve been since day one. That’s the end game for all of us in the Hodge house.”
“Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.”
“I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I’m confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.”
“When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.”
“You want to score in every game and to fight hard.”
“I play a good physical game.”
“I am always in the box, strong, good in the air, and, of course, I like getting stuck in. I play a physical game.”
“Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.”
“You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.”
“Well, football is a hard game; there’s no denying it. It’s a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.”
“There’s something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It’s a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.”
“’Game of Thrones’ is the broadest of narratives. I don’t know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what’s on the show.”
“You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on ‘Game of Thrones.’ I mean, it’s just as good as it gets.”
“For ‘Game of Thrones,’ I realized immediately that it was about the characters.”
“There’s always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“It’s very unusual on ‘Game of Thrones’ for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There’s rarely a reason to say, ‘Hey, we don’t need this scene.’”
“It’s funny because ‘West Wing’ is similar to ‘Game of Thrones’ in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.”
“No director directs ‘Game of Thrones’ without reading all the episodes and knowing what’s going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.”
“The hardest part of ‘Game of Thrones’ is there is so much incredible talent bouncing off the walls that you’ll actually miss some of them, and not getting it is very intimidating.”
“’Game of Thrones’ is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there’s a lot more time and focus put into the script.”
“I don’t know the stats but with Mesut in the team, you are always going to get at least three chances a game from him. He always provides an excellent pass or something, a good move or play that leads to a goal, or almost leads to a goal.”
“We are not going to dwell on the past, we are always looking forward to the next game.”
“Sometimes in a Premier League game the fans are a bit quiet but in Nigeria you just hear trumpets, everything. The atmosphere is so different compared to England.”
“Whenever I am called upon to play, I always try to give my best and make sure that I can impose myself on the game.”
“I love attacking, but I hate defending and it’s something I need to add to my game.”
“As a footballer you’re committed to play for the badge, train alongside fantastic players daily and compete against some of the game’s best every weekend. What more can you ask for.”
“My favorite goals are the ones when there’s so much pressure. I focus more when the game is on the line.”
“My dad has been to every soccer game that I’ve played in, both at the amateur level and at the professional level, and he always had great things to say whether we won or we lost, whether I felt great or not so great.”
“I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical game. I could use my speed and strength to my advantage.”
“I don’t think the entire world respects women in sport. But if FIFA start respecting the women’s game more, others will follow.”
“When I leave the game, I want to go out on top.”
“Pregame, I eat pancakes for a meal. I always do mental visualization before the game to prepare myself. Postgame, I typically take ice baths.”
“In the 123rd minute of the semifinal game at the Olympics against Canada, I scored the game-winning goal that brought us to the finals. You can’t replicate those do-or-die moments in practice or a friendly game.”
“If I’ve had a bad game, I know I’ve had a bad game, and I don’t mind hearing it.”
“My dad speaks a lot of sense and keeps me grounded. He’ll watch me play and, if I’ve done well, he’ll have a quiet word with me and say, ‘Well done.’ If I’ve had a not-so-good game, he’ll let me know about it.”
“I’ve grown up playing in central midfield more, and I think my natural game is about coming inside from wide.”
“You can have one good game, but the next one could be a bad one.”
“FA Cup or league – we look to win every game.”
“You are all mates off the pitch, but on it, you are all competing for places. I think that only makes a healthier squad – more players fighting for positions can only mean everyone has got to step their game up.”
“I can have the worst game of my life, come off the pitch, and my mum will tell me I was great! That’s what mums do.”
“As a footballer, you want to play every game.”
“When I used to come to Anfield as an away player, I always knew it was going to be a hard game, no matter what kind of form your team was in.”
“It’s tougher when you’re established. Before, I’d see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.”
“I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I’ll use things like this for motivation. I’m pumped. I’m hungry.”
“I’m very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.”
“It’s a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it’s obviously not healthy. The last thing I’m looking for is sympathy.”
“We don’t really compare ourselves to the men’s game or what they do. For us, it’s about trying to get more people involved in the women’s games.”
“Although more teams are going full-time professional and there’s more money involved, our main incentive is simply to play for the love of the game.”
“No matter what happens to our game, money won’t be a motivation for me.”
“No golfer’s journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.”
“In the ’70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America’s baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn’t get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.”
“Game day can be emotional, and there are a lot of ups and downs throughout a game, but as a quarterback, you have to be able to see the bigger picture, steady that ship, get all the guys focused in on the task at hand, and keep the thing moving.”
“As a quarterback, you’ve got a huge responsibility: You’re touching the ball every single play. You have such a big impact on deciding the game, just in your decision-making and how you are with the football and your fundamentals.”
“This is the honest truth: I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that’s a totally overblown stat.”
“You’re frustrated when things aren’t going right. When you’re out there, you have your piece of it, your view. It isn’t until usually the next day when you’re watching the film that you get to put all the pieces together: ‘Oh, this is what happened on that play’; ‘This is why I did that.’ You don’t totally know that game day.”
“As a QB, it’s a team game, and you’re all out there in it.”
“We unfortunately already live on a planet where the climate has changed and will continue to change no matter what we do now. We’re playing a game of making the problem less bad rather than preventing it.”
“There’s no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn’t happen, but I believe we don’t have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, ‘Game over.’ Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.”
“I think what makes ‘Jeopardy!’ special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.”
“I remember, even when I started with WWE, it was a different ball game. There were all these restrictions and things we couldn’t do, and now, it’s really empowering to know we can do anything that we want and what the guys can do. It gives women the opportunity to show why we’re more than divas and why we’re WWE superstars.”
“Whenever I go back home, I make sure I can attend a Blue Jackets game.”
“As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can’t risk it all.”
“Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.”
“If ‘Game Of Thrones’ hadn’t been made, I don’t think ‘The Last Kingdom’ would have been, but this is more grounded in real life.”
“’The Last Kingdom”s got its roots in history, and it’s a lot grittier. It doesn’t have the ‘Game of Thrones’ gloss.”
“It’s normal when there’s a new show on the air to say this is the new ‘Game of Thrones’ or this is the new ‘Vikings,’ because we need to put things in boxes.”
“There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.”
“I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell.’ I thought, ‘Well, I’m just going to move to L.A. and become famous. ‘Squeakwell’ is going to launch me to that point.’ Well, I didn’t end up working for, like, three years afterward. That’s kind of the name of the game.”
“There are games where the striker will be useful for the team in terms of creating space and being involved in the game, without necessarily scoring, but he’ll have played an important role for the team. But, of course, over the course of a season, I have to score goals, as that’s what statistics reflect.”
“I don’t think we have to score in every game in order to have a good game.”
“Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.”
“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.”
“You might cry during a game if you lose a final. That’s all part of football.”
“I still think I’m playing back home in the street in my town with my mates. That’s why I love the game, and mostly, I don’t pay too much attention to social media or look at stuff that’s out there.”
“I try to prove that I am an important player every day and game after game.”
“Sometimes, when I am not playing in a game, it leaves me feeling very tired when I play in the next one. It is like I haven’t trained for a month.”
“I didn’t go to drama school, so I didn’t really have many true friends in the business; ‘Game Of Thrones’ has definitely brought me that.”
“I was never a gym person before ‘Game Of Thrones.’ The idea of it was a bore to me – and it kind of still is – but I had a problem with my knee, so I can’t play sport as much as I’d like to.”
“’Game of Thrones’ is my big break, so I’ve got to make the most of it, keep acting well.”
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“In order for me to perform the best I can out on the field, I have to fuel my body with the proper nutrients to be able to do all the running. I’m running four or five miles every game, so it’s a lot. Even at halftime, I take electrolytes and have half a peanut-butter-and-jelly or whatever is sitting there just to keep my engine running.”
“Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.”
“There are a few moments in every game when I will have to sprint and use my explosiveness to win.”
“On game days, I’m pretty boring: I like to rest and watch TV with my legs up so I’m not on my feet too much before the match.”
“Because I don’t like to play on a full stomach, I try to eat a bigger meal in the morning and less throughout the day leading up to the game.”
“It’s always tough to play against teams that bunker or ‘park the bus’ inside the 18-yard box, but we always try to focus on our game and how we can overcome the obstacles that the game presents to continue to get better and score goals.”
“If the spaces open up in the attack, then of course I’m willing to take it because I love to get involved; I love to get crosses in. I love to do combinations and just bring a different aspect to our game.”
“Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.”
“It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.”
“What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.”
“When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.”
“It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.”
“Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.”
“In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.”
“My game is characterised by consistency, and that is what has brought me to Liverpool and helped me grow and develop. I like to make simple saves. I don’t make saves for the camera.”
“We have to learn from our mistakes. But it’s part of my game; I won’t be arrogant of saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes.”
“My game is characterised by consistency.”
“These humiliations are the essence of the game.”
“This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everybody has a nutritionist. Everybody has everything. It’s here that you realize, as people, we’re all equal.”
“Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn’t have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.”
“If I could take back all the mistakes that I made throughout my career, I would have had a perfect career. I would have missed no shots. I would have made no turnovers. I would have went right instead of going left when I was supposed to, every game.”
“It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.”
“I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it’s too hard.”
“God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That’s just a great feeling.”
“LeBron ain’t got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.”
“Depending on the time I get, I do my share of social networking, listen to music, or play a video game. I love watching movies in theatres.”
“I can still play this game at a high level; I’ve proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.”
“I’ve got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.”
“I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.”
“I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it’s half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.”
“I’m an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I’m, you know, really on my game.”
“I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I’m better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don’t.”
“You’re as good as your next game, not your previous, so I’ll focus on the next one.”
“I do not know if I will stay in the game when I do retire; I have got humanity, so I do not know if I will go into law.”
“A bugbear of mine is bragging rights in regional derbies: it would be a lot more worth to the regional game if we did something special in European rugby.”
“Before I was ‘the captain’ with the label – because essentially, that’s all it is – I was a player, and before that, I was a fan of the game, fan of the team.”
“I’ll look at stats after a game to see the work I’ve done in different areas.”
“You know when you’ve had a good game, and you know when you could have done better.”
“I usually don’t talk for three days after a defeat. Then you have an epiphany and realise it’s just a game.”
“Players want to play a lot of rugby. We’re walking contradictions at times in that we want to play a lot of rugby, but we don’t want to play too much rugby, and we want to be available for all the big games, yet there are times when you have to sacrifice that because of game limits.”
“There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn’t have to share the field with other players.”
“I’d like to play in every game, like everybody else.”
“When I was seven or eight, I got a trampoline. My dad used to say to me all the time, ‘Come on with the head,’ and then pass the ball to me as I jumped. I really think it’s helped my heading game because I practiced this all the time with my dad.”
“Sometimes I go home, put the game on, and think, ‘How can I miss that?’ It affects you; it also affects you to know your career also depends on the opinion of journalists, fans, directors, and sometimes they’re not really qualified to judge.”
“In Spain, you get seven clear chances a game to receive the ball and shoot. In Italy, you get very few clear balls, and you have to fight everyone to score; that makes you improve and develop.”
“In the Premier League, I think if you win your first five games, you’re in the fight, because here in every game, you can lose or drop points.”
“Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.”
“In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.”
“Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.”
“I can do one ‘Breaking Bad’ in a night, or one ‘Game of Thrones.’ But ‘House of Cards,’ I can really do three in a night. I get sucked in.”
“Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.”
“Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.”
“Politics is not a tit-for-tat game. It’s not ‘I helped you, now you help me.’”
“Ladies and dentists will agree: Iverson has one of the best smiles to ever grin. This is uncontested. No argument! And he was very generous with it as well. Whether during a game, press conference, or photoshoot, Iverson was free with his cheesing.”
“Growing up, I was always super into fantasy and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ and all of that, but I could never find black characters whom I really liked.”
“To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.”
“The N.B.A. is not an easy job. As you get older, you play this game for 82 games a year, and you play 11 or 12 years, your body tends to break down.”
“Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”
“The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.”
“People come into fights against me and say this and that, but when they realise how quick and how hard I hit, their game plan disappears.”
“Boxing’s not going to retire me; I’ll retire from boxing. That’s where most people make mistakes. They normally stay in the game a bit too long.”
“Mayweather waits for you to make a mistake. He plays a similar game to me.”
“I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn’t have any place in politics. It’s a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn’t know how to play it.”
“Concentrate, play your game, and don’t be afraid to win.”
“Golf is a spiritual game. It’s like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.”
“Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad’s. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.”
“You’re never out of the game until you’ve lost the final point.”
“The media and press can be relentless, especially with women. Personally, while I take pride in my appearance and enjoy the compliments, when I’m on court, it is all about my game.”
“Tennis has given me so many opportunities, and I feel very lucky to have achieved whatever I have, especially coming from a country that does not have a great history in the game.”
“It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn’t have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.”
“Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.”
“I used to always want to play the perfect match, and this meant not losing a point. The realisation came around the time I was 19 years old, in the French Open final in 2007. This was a key period in my career. I was told I was going for too many winners, which was affecting my game.”
“Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.”
“If the opponent offers keen play I don’t object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.”
“There are a lot of guys who average a lot of points, but they make the game hard for themselves, and they make the game hard for their teammates, and that’s why you never really see them win or get deep in the playoffs.”
“Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don’t know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who’s a top 15 player, who’s a top 20 player.”
“It’s natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don’t know that. It’s just in my game.”
“My game has really picked up in the NBA.”
“Seattle was my favorite team growing up, so I know a little bit about Coach Karl and his history. He’s one of the best coaches in the game, well-respected by much of his peers and much of his players.”
“If I get on the golf course, my basketball game is a direct reflection of how many rounds of golf I can get. So, the more rounds of golf, the better I play.”
“I have a drive to get more steals and improve my game and stats overall every year.”
“Draymond’s always talking trash, and he’s really good at getting you off your game. He’s one of the guys that he’ll talk trash, even when you’re playing golf. He will knock you off your game… But when you see his swing, you’re like, ‘How do you talk trash so well, and your swing’s this bad?’”
“I’m always happy for guys who are enjoying the game and maximizing their potential on and off the court.”
“I’m just a golf enthusiast where I enjoy the game so much, and I’m excited.”
“I think I’m a smart guy who knows the game.”
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.”
“It was an away game, I think in Poland. I ate some chicken and had really bad salmonella.”
“That is the only way to survive in the Premier League. Every game is a battle, whether you’re playing the top team or the one at the bottom of the table.”
“The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.”
“I get the headlines for being slick and different things like that – which is part of my game – but it’s just amazing to me that a lot of times, the people don’t see the other things that go on in that ring. But a lot of times, when my opponents figure it out, the fight is over. It’s too late.”
“I talk to amateurs, up-and-coming guys, fighters older than me, and we compare notes to teach each other how to leave this game on top from a legacy and financial standpoint.”
“The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn’t high tech or can’t make a unique performance claim – plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours – you can’t go to market today. I’m not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!”
“Ancelotti moved me to a new position and helped me raise my game.”
“I want to be successful in playing the game. I’m going to do my best to help myself and my teammates play in the best possible way and reach successful results.”
“I think if somebody knows how to play the game, he or she can play anywhere. You know how to fit in.”
“When you no longer feel part of the game, then you have to think about doing something else.”
“When I first went to Milan, my agent said you have to give off a strong, masculine energy. They don’t like campiness. They like boys to appear straight and to appear masculine. I quickly learned the game of it and how to navigate around it.”
“Baseball is a hard game. There’s going to be ups and downs.”
“Going into Portland, I was just trying to not step on anybody’s toes, stay quiet, and play my game. I think I was just trying to figure out the kind of sequences I was going to see as a hitter and learn from that.”
“Being stronger really helped my game.”
“The American attitude is ‘We’re the best’. That’s why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.”
“I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come… Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.”
“From its skillful editing to its out-of-control budget and its relentless marketing, Mr. Obama’s team played a different game at a different level than Sen. John McCain and his traditionalist staff.”
“The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.”
“As a cricketer, I played on bravado and character. My personality was bound up with how I played the game.”
“I’ve never been – and never will be – someone who ‘plays the game’ with people.”
“Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.”
“I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called ‘roof ball.’ We’d play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.”
“I remember playing a high school basketball game where I didn’t eat anything for breakfast. I ate, you know, like a PB and J and some chips for lunch and nothing before the game. I didn’t make it through the first quarter. I wish I hadn’t have learned that way, but it did leave a lasting impression.”
“Watching soccer is my main hobby, really. I’m no tactician or coach, but I enjoy watching the free flow of it, the different styles, and the histories behind clubs. Like Barcelona vs. Madrid – it’s not just a soccer game; it’s a geopolitical struggle. There are great storylines and no commercials.”
“There is a board game called Settlers of Catan. That is what I play. I am so embarrassed.”
“I do know it’s great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it… Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it’s not just one person’s fault.”
“I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.”
“I think a punt can be a big play in a game. If it’s anything like a real game, then you realize that a Pat McAfee punt that downs someone inside the 2-yard line can really swing a game. I’m all for punting in video games.”
“I always appreciated my dad coming outside and playing with us – or my mom – and being a part of the game we were playing or refereeing it or just being outside. That was fun for us, and it was very encouraging.”
“Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.”
“I think as a young person, you’re kind of game for whatever sometimes.”
“We all need to chip in with goals and assists. It’s not just the front three. It’s not just the defence that keeps clean sheets, either. It’s a team game.”
“Even when I have a good game, you can still do things better.”
“That’s why it’s hardest to win a Premier League instead of a Champions League – because it’s over 38 games. You can’t play well in every game, but it’s about grinding out results.”
“Just before I left Dundee United, I captained them for one game, although I think that was maybe to keep me there!”
“Sometimes, the fact is that you need to think of your health – because what use is it for Ryan Fraser to try and be a hero for one game, then end up out for six months?”
“There is no point in getting nervous. I get a few butterflies in my stomach, but it isn’t really nerves but things that will help your game.”
“Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without watching a regular season game. Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.”
“We think that fear must be played out in fight, with military intervention, or in flight, via isolationism – but we are not hunted game, and those are not the only options. There is also the possibility of acceptance, with its corollary of understanding and its ultimate manifestation in embracing.”
“I’ve always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that’s just the way you play the game – aggressive. There’s no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.”
“Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.”
“You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.”
“There’s fresh fish, and then there’s fresh fish. Samoa is ranked as one of the best places for game fishing in all the world, and runs thick in the waters off the island chain. In fact, it’s used as an edible currency in local markets. The day I fished there, we caught loads of yellowfin.”
“The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.”
“Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.”
“When I was working at Trio, I was pitched ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ and I knew, whoever gets this, this is a game changer. When I started at Bravo in 2005, it was a hit, and Season 1 of ‘Project Runway’ was in postproduction.”
“When you have beaten guys a few times, you don’t want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don’t expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.”
“I just enjoy watching tennis. And there’s things that you can learn from the men’s and the women’s game.”
“My speed is something that has made a difference to my whole career. When I’ve felt quick and I’m moving well, it makes a huge difference to my entire game. When I feel a bit slower, I end up doing a lot more defending. When I’m a bit quicker to the ball, I feel I can attack a lot more.”
“At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.”
“You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing the young guys do well. I’ll still have a lot of friends to watch. I’ll miss the relationships probably the most. As time passes, I’ll probably miss the tennis more.”
“I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.”
“I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.”
“I like ice hockey, but it’s a frustrating game to watch. It’s hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.”
“The Super Bowl isn’t for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.”
“My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.”
“Speaking from personal experience, I watch zero shows when they air. The only shows I watch live are awards shows or sports. Shows like ‘True Detective’ and ‘Game Of Thrones,’ I watch every episode, but I don’t watch them as they air, and I think that’s becoming the case for people more.”
“Motion capture is exactly what it says: it’s physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance – including your facial performance. If you’re doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor’s performance: audio, facial and physical.”
“Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can’t lead the audience of players in one direction.”
“You can’t just come up with an idea for a game and stick the drama on top. It all has to be one driving thrust.”
“It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.”
“Football is a strange game.”
“In France, the matches are sometimes very tight, and so it is difficult to score. A free kick can unlock a game.”
“I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.”
“The courts don’t remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It’s because the parents were unfit, not the kids.”
“I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.”
“What I would love to happen is to have people at the top of their game – straight, gay, cisgender, transgender, whatever – to volunteer with us, as long as they have something of value to offer and they see the value in our community.”
“I just go out there, try to play my game.”
“I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.”
“I knew that I have the game to beat the best players.”
“My game was always about good defence.”
“When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.”
“I was trying to be improving my game, being more aggressive, and not just playing from the defensive end.”
“Statehood is not a model for economic development; it is simply a way to organize a federation. What statehood does in fiscal and economic terms is apply uniform rules of the game to all states.”
“Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I’ll be around making art when I’m 80.”
“In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.”
“Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.”
“It was when I was shooting for a Telugu film in Hyderabad when director Meher Ramesh approached me for ‘Veera Kannadiga.’ I was game to explore a new language and said yes.”
“Game creators aren’t necessarily all sitting around twirling their nefarious-looking mustaches while consciously trying to figure out how to best misrepresent women as part of some grand conspiracy. Most probably just haven’t given much thought to the underlying messages their games are sending.”
“Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable.”
“Go to a Cubs game and see how many people are in the stands, because when you can’t win, nobody cares anymore.”
“I’m concerned about the future of football, because we have paid a lot of attention to concussions. We are more aware of concussions. But it’s really the repetitive minor injuries, the ones that are asymptomatic that occur on almost every play of the game, the sub-concussive hits: that’s the big problem for football.”
“Is there a way that we would actually recognize the game of football with fewer tackles and fewer collisions? I’m not sure. But I think that’s the direction we’re going to have to go. Bigger fields? Fewer players on the field? I think we are ultimately going to have to change some of the major rules of the game.”
“Football is an extraordinarily popular sport, and the whole game is played around this issue. The whole makeup of the game involves these subconcussive hits. I don’t know how they’re going to solve that problem. I don’t think they know how they’re going to solve that problem.”
“They’re elite athletes. They’re amazing athletes. That’s why I love football. I mean, it’s incredible to me to see them go out for an unbelievable pass and actually make the catch. It’s just an amazing game of athleticism and skill. They’re different; there’s no question. They’re huge, they’re fast, and they’re all these wonderful things.”
“I had a real computer solitaire problem. I’d gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could write, and each time I got up to get a cup of water, I had to win a game. It was a nightmare.”
“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.”
“I guess my silly dream is to be on ‘Game of Thrones.’ I don’t think that I can do that, but that’s my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.”
“I’m constantly playing this game in my head where I’m thinking, ‘Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?’ It doesn’t matter what outlet I’m talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, ‘Right, but ‘People’ magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.’”
“I am very lucky in my team. They sit opposite me, and I get to see them every day sitting there staring at the seating chart, not doing much. It is almost like a chess game.”
“I feel that I’ve worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I’m just curious about what I might have done if I’d had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.”
“There was definitely a moment, a time after ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’, when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn’t do it, physically, I just couldn’t. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.”
“Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it’s a team game, it’s not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities – they work hard, they’re selfless, they put the team before them – I have no issues with them.”
“Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.”
“The prospect of coaching two of the game’s most exciting and decorated players in Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson was incredibly appealing to me, and I look forward to beginning this new chapter in my career.”
“At the end of the game, coaches always talk about what could have been done differently with the game plan.”
“I read ‘Game Change.’ If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It’s great. It’s the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.”
“I’m not intensely private – I talk a great deal about my life and my work – I just don’t play the game to excess.”
“In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.”
“The experience of playing EuroLeague ball gave myself a different perspective on just the way the game’s played. Every possession matters. Everything has to be on point. Offence, defensively – everybody has to be connected.”
“The Internet is getting so big, and people are inventing so many amazing things and new experiences. I never thought ‘Coco’ would have a VR game, and it was very cool to experience. I remember throwing a paper airplane even though there wasn’t actually anything in my hand.”
“I wanna change the game in way where I’m not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I’ve been given.”
“If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.”
“Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.”
“In France, it’s easy to know which team is going to win the game, whereas in England, anywhere you play, you know it’s going to be difficult.”
“I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that’s what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public – for me, it’s a secret, and I just want to work hard.”
“I must continue to work hard in training. I need to think more like a goal scorer; sometimes I get so immersed in the game because I love general play so much.”
“To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.”
“Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.”
“One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.”
“I want to keep my head in the game, my ego low.”
“Speed isn’t everything, but he’d be a great striker at Atletico. Usain Bolt would be perfect for our game. Me behind and him up front. The best!”
“I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I’m going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.”
“I’ve never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.”
“Over the course of the game, you can’t let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it’s not going to be a great day.”
“Anytime you get an opportunity to put more fun into the game, that’s good. I’ve got a lot of positive energy.”
“If you play this game long enough, you’re going to get your tail kicked at least once.”
“I always modeled my game after the guys from Miami. Chad Ochocinco, Santana Moss, Andre Johnson. I used to love Roscoe Parrish as a returner.”
“I’m passionate about the game. Anytime you work as hard and a play doesn’t go the way you wanted, you get frustrated.”
“We do a lot of great things, but it’s a competitive league. A lot of great guys around us do the work and help us elevate our game, and that’s what makes the NFL so special. We have a lot of competitive players who are the best in the world at what they do, and they all compete against each other.”
“Aaron Rodgers – I love the way he scrambles and how he plays the game – he always makes great decisions with the ball.”
“Allowing guys to celebrate and get the fans involved and excited – it makes the game better.”
“I don’t have no issue with any guy. I’m a football player. I’m a competitor. When we’re in the field, we’re going to compete and be competitive. It’s not personal between none of these guys. It’s all in the game.”
“The game has been great to me. The Steelers have been great to me, and I think things will work out and take its toll. But I’m just singularly focused on being a great player, being here around the guys and my teammates, and representing my family.”
“It’s a team game, but you’ve got to have individuals that really want the ball and want the pressure of being there to help get in a position to win.”
“I like to call it a ‘sacred fire’ when you have it inside you: the will to win every game.”
“In my team, I don’t want selfish players. I prefer to lose a game than have selfish players. I don’t want that in my club. Never.”
“Every game, I have to make the best decision. I repeat: my players must be happy to stay in Chelsea and to play for Chelsea and to play for our fans. They must be happy if they start the game or if they stay on the bench and come on.”
“We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition. But at the same time, sometimes you have to compliment your opponent. You must be honest and accept the result.”
“Every coach, during a game, it is important to understand the situation to change.”
“I try to avoid all mistakes. I try to prepare my players and to put them in the best condition to play the game. If you discover a problem during the game, it is too late. You must anticipate and prepare.”
“When I became a manager, my enthusiasm became more because when you have the possibility to waste your energy and show your passion during the game; it is good.”
“If you saw me as a footballer, when I played, I always showed a great passion. You saw Antonio Conte during the game showing passion.”
“All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.”
“As of right now, I have no desire. I’ve watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I’d have the feeling I’d like to get back, but I didn’t have that feeling. I don’t really miss the game.”
“You can fake a lot in a startup these days, what with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of off-the-shelf back-end components that let any even minimally competent duffer set up a Web app that does something. Intelligent planning for growth is rare among early startups, but it’s the name of the game at a large, rapidly scaling tech company.”
“I genuinely don’t care about the ‘number one’ tag. That’s not my goal. You know, no one does that with heroes, but with actresses it’s the same number game. It’s not a bloody pageant. Everyone has something unique to offer.”
“I don’t believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.”
“Usually I’ll tell someone, for example, like their watch. If they have a watch on, I might say, ‘In three minutes, I’d like to be wearing your watch. Do I have your permission?’ Once they say yes, I play a little game with them as I’m interacting with them, and I steal their watch.”
“I’ve always liked game shows – the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.”
“The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It’s won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they’re not ready on Saturday, you’re not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.”
“The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.”
“Increasingly, staying in the middle class – let alone aspiring to become middle class – is becoming a game of chance.”
“Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.”
“In the years between 2000 and 2004, I always got the feeling that people were just starting to hear about me, and they were all late to the game. I’d be out playing shows for records that I recorded back in 1999 that were just coming out.”
“I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.”
“After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.”
“The most important thing is to stay down to earth and keep concentrating on the next game.”
“I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.”
“What I will miss the most about Guardiola? His obsession with the game and his knowledge, which makes you a better football player.”
“I think that in each stage of your career, you need certain things to improve your game and to develop your style of play.”
“Every game is a new battle.”
“You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game.”
“Emoting songs onscreen comes naturally to me since we do emote in the studio behind the mike as well. But acting in a full-length Bollywood film is a completely different ball game.”
“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”
“I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.”
“There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth… It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.”
“I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.”
“My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.”
“I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I’m doing, I guess I’ll keep doing it.”
“I’ve stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we’d play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.”
“I’ve stated my position, and that is we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we’d play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.”
“I don’t think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.”
“As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.”
“It’s silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.”
“Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.”
“Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.”
“All of the other books in the series… none of them are particularly like ‘Ender’s Game.’”
“I chose to deal with the underdogs on ‘1 Train.’ I could’ve got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?”
“I try to do my best every game to help the pitchers and help my team win. That’s it.”
“I’ve really enjoyed playing this game. It’s a game that I try my best to enjoy to the fullest. Without pressure. Relaxed. And that helps me when I play.”
“I see the game too slow from second base. That’s why I like to play more short.”
“You have more time to make the play at second base than shortstop. That’s why the game’s more quick.”
“More than anything, you have to respect the game and do things the right way.”
“I just come every day, do my stuff before the game, work hard. You work hard, and it pays off.”
“It’s the same game. It’s baseball. National League, American League. It’s baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.”
“The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.”
“I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it’s going, so if I act against that, I’ve created a twist. In fact, it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath, there is a hidden theme.”
“I love watching ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Rome,’ and ‘Spartacus’ from the period dramas genre.”
“I just want to be the best I can and create my own style of game.”
“I was very fortunate to have a coach when I was young who taught me all the traditional shots and taught me a pretty traditional game style, in a way.”
“The more balls that I hit, it’s going to get better and better. Once I get a bit more confidence in my ball striking, that’s when we can get down to the nitty gritty parts of the game.”
“When you come out and know you’re singing the national anthem, it gives you a buzz and gets you lifted for the game.”
“No players want to hear their own fans booing the players, booing the team, but football is a hard game, and you can’t win everything.”
“We don’t really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.”
“Whatever the download thing has done to the game, you as an artist can get yourself out there to the masses, off your own back.”
“I loved studying the Medieval world; that’s why I love ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“I’m definitely old-school when it comes to dating. I’m not into the ‘game’ so much. If I like you, I’ll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.”
“There’s a lot said now about younger players: that it’s just about the cars and houses. I’m from the old school – it’s about what you’ve achieved in the game.”
“Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.”
“It’s about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.”
“I wouldn’t say I’ve changed at all. A lot of people will keep saying I’m a different person, especially when I go across those white lines. I think it’s just the hunger and desire and passion I’ve got for the game.”
“As you get older, you start to read the game more, and as your brain starts working more, and as you get a good footballing brain, your legs start slowing down!”
“As I’ve got older, the nerves aren’t there anymore; they just left one day when I was at Watford. I only feel excitement now, whatever the game.”
“When you lose a game, there’s obviously disappointment, and you want a game straight away.”
“There’s no better feeling than coming off the pitch knowing you’ve won the game.”
“I want to play every game.”
“A lot of youngsters in the game think they’ve made it before they’ve done anything. But at United, they’re given that winning mentality and an ethos of always trying to improve.”
“I just want to do well in every game that I’m picked to play.”
“Things happen on football pitches. Once the game is finished, you don’t need to talk afterwards. That’s just how it is.”
“I wouldn’t be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.”
“I prepare for every game the same.”
“After ‘Punk’d,’ my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was a different game. If you got front-page coverage on any popular website, you could probably get a push.”
“Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.”
“If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate. There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.”
“The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.”
“My ultimate game – or at least one I would really like to see – would be something where it was like the beginning of George R. R. Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones’, where you’re Ned Stark, and you know that one of your friends has been murdered, and you go to the capital city and you have to navigate this web of court intrigue.”
“Preparation starts after the game before.”
“I’ve played this game since I was in second grade, and there’s nothing more important to me than playing football.”
“I think that people that don’t really understand the game of football and are just fans that think people just show up on Saturday and go, I don’t think they understand the work that we put in here and what our schemes are and what we’re trying to do.”
“I’m Austin Seferian-Jenkins. He’s Tony Gonzalez. He’s the best tight end to ever play the game. So that’s a real strong comparison. I’m just going to do my job and leave the comparisons up to the coaches and the media.”
“I’m not saying my own looks don’t give the game away. Nothing I can do about that anymore. A nip and tuck ain’t gonna do it.”
“The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.”
“Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I’m not a normal female rapper – it’s not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That’s just not me.”
“There can’t be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.”
“I play at Manchester City. I try and give performances for them game after game.”
“To get to the top, you must have an edge to your game, like Ramos does.”
“Pep is the best manager in the world. He’s always looking to help me get better and improve my game.”
“I think every film is like a team game, especially for me. I have always got films which have a strong cast.”
“I still remember most people in the industry warning me that I was not playing the stardom game and that I was becoming niche because these content films don’t do big numbers.”
“It is not my role to go out and do the power hitting. My job is to play my natural game.”
“There is always a plan, and that is very simple – to lead the game till the end – and my role is to play the anchor while the team plays around me.”
“Pakistan vs. India is always an exciting match, as everyone has eyes on this game.”
“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.”
“I love this game, and without the competitive nature, I wouldn’t enjoy it.”
“I set the bar high, and I’ll do anything, whatever it takes to win. I care more about this game than most people ever will. When you mix a lot of those things with a winning mentality, it’s a good thing to have as a franchise quarterback.”
“Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There’s no doubt about that.”
“Football is a violent, competitive game. That’s the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.”
“That’s the biggest difference from college to NFL. Everybody’s so talented at this level, the difference is knowing the game – knowing where to go with the ball in my position, knowing how to execute your job to the highest level. In college, you could just get by playing ball.”
“Without pressure, I don’t think this would be very much fun, without all the people watching and finding joy in this game.”
“I don’t like the blame game, though.”
“North Korea’s whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They’re so poor and they’re so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it’s a game they’ve been playing for many, many years.”
“Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there’s a great disappointment that he’s playing the same game as his father.”
“If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.”
“There’s a great feeling when you look in someone’s eyes and they have that ‘look of defeat,’ and that’s what I’m looking for, and that’s my game plan.”
“If we’re going to talk about our businesses, we’re going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we’re not going to give guidance, because we don’t believe that it is a sensible game to play.”
“I don’t think you ever really get used to it, do you? There’s always another little level of shock in it and of being starstruck at the people you meet. And that’s the beauty of it: you’re always fascinated, because it’s not a normal thing to do, is it, this acting game?”
“Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.”
“I wasn’t trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.”
“Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.”
“I quit because I didn’t feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.”
“My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.”
“Anyone who has played the game professionally, you’re always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it’s always a mad scramble. It’s amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn’t walk away with the ball.”
“It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.”
“I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.”
“It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game – play by play.”
“Sometimes when I watch a game, there are often more wide receivers on the field than we had on our whole team.”
“When our players come from somewhere else, they sometimes show happiness when the game is 0-0 or 1-1, but we were brought up in an environment where we have to win. We are not satisfied with 0-0 or 1-1. This is the mentality of Bayern Munich.”
“There’s a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, ‘Mia san mia.’ Literally, it is, ‘We are we,’ but it means, ‘We are who we are.’ That’s not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.”
“I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.”
“There is fireworks before the game; there is the national anthem before the game, so that is a huge difference to how it is in Germany: like, after the warmup, you touch the ball 20 minutes later. So that is a little bit different. The league, for example, the MLS is quite a young league, actually, but it is developing.”
“I just want to help, first of all, the Chicago Fire to grow, to change the mentality to a winning team, and to reach the playoffs. That’s my goal. But also to change the game style into a team which is able to control every opponent.”
“I love this game. I love to find solutions, ideas. I always saw the potential of this league. Now that I’m here, I want to help.”
“I loved ‘WWF No Mercy’ for the Nintendo 64. One of my favorites games was ‘WCW Thunder.’ I loved playing that game, and I loved being The Steiner Brothers. They were so cool, and they were some of the most powerful characters.”
“No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.”
“Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.”
“It’s been years since I’ve had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I’ve just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.”
“It’s a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved – people’s ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It’s dramatic, it’s interesting, and I think it’s something we can all identify with to a degree.”
“Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?”
“The women’s national team is a very successful team, and that success has given us a platform to speak on gender equity issues. Millions of young women play soccer in this country, and it’s empowering for them to see that our contribution to the game is valued.”
“I’ve never been the tallest or the strongest or the fastest. But I’d like to think that I can read the game well enough, that I can position myself well enough, that I can level the playing field when it comes to physical differences. When it comes to height, whoever wants the ball more is going to win it.”
“The game can be quite dangerous when you look at certain injuries, especially head injuries.”
“I’ve always been very hard on myself, and I never want to get to a point where I’m like, ‘Alright, I’m kicking butt,’ but I know I need to be confident because I think that will take my game to the next level.”
“The way I play, it’s very much more a mental game than a physical game. I’m looking for space and where are players leaving space. Defensively, where are we at numerical disadvantages? Do I shift more to the left because they have more players on their right side? It’s about reading the game before the game happens.”
“Soccer can be very subtle; it’s a very nuanced sport. If I happen to make things easy and people don’t see it, that could be a reason why someone might stand out more than I do. But that’s just the way I’ve grown up playing the game.”
“If I could play a game and not have to tackle, I know that I did everything right. I organized everyone the right way, read every play the right way.”
“In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.”
“Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.”
“It’s almost ludicrous that I’m playing a game and getting paid for it. I’m just going to ride it as long as I can.”
“It’s overkill when you put too much fragrance on. It’s the worst. Not sexy, and it makes me want to puke. I’m nauseous. Know what I mean? Your game’s off.”
“I would be at horse shows by myself for weeks, and I had to make sure I was on my game at all times.”
“If you’re going to die on ‘Game of Thrones,’ you have to die well, haven’t you?”
“When ‘Game Of Thrones’ came out, lots of interviews were coming in, and people asking me to do certain things which would push me out there. Like this whole Instagram and Twitter thing – getting more followers doesn’t bother me at all.”
“Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.”
“The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.”
“Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would unlock Tolstoy-mode, enabling me to crank out canon-worthy novellas before lunch.”
“I used to a play a role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons, and that was about levels of experience; as you gained experience, you were able to deal with much greater and far more kind of global creatures.”
“I’ve always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.”
“Usually, if I’m yelling at the TV, I’m in a bar. If I’m by myself, and it’s not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can’t hear me through the television set.”
“Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.”
“I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.”
“Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.”
“When you look at a company that’s already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn’t necessarily when it’s executing well. It tends to be peacetime – you’ve defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.”
“You’re only as good as your next game.”
“Basketball movies don’t really accentuate the flow of the game.”
“Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It’s like golf. You never get it right all the time. It’s a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.”
“’What if?’ history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day – including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery – believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.”
“’The Man Who Never Was,’ by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant – incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.”
“My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, that’s how I get introduced.”
“Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.”
“There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn’t until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.”
“If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new ‘Resident Evil’ comes out, I have to sit and do the whole thing. It will consume my life. I’m at a point where I don’t have much time to play around anymore, so I don’t really get started on the games if I won’t be able to finish them.”
“I’m kind of ready for anything. I don’t really get nervous, and I’m not the type of person who gets worried about a game. I just play the game, and I enjoy it.”
“Getting the rebound and going, that’s probably the most fluid part of my game.”
“I feel I can win the game without scoring 30 points.”
“It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.”
“We’ve made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.”
“I might have a great game hitting, but if I’m not having a great game fielding, if I feel like I let a guy get an extra base that I could have stopped, that’s something I’ve got to do better, got to get better at.”
“I can’t take 200 hacks in the cage before the game. Not because I’ll get tired, but because I’ll hurt myself! I can’t do that. I might get injured.”
“You’re not going to hit a bunch of three-run homers every game.”
“I am a student of the game.”
“I want to try and get better in every facet of the game.”
“We don’t even think about it out there. We just focus on doing our job. The ball is the same baseball, the game is the same game. We’re going to just keep trying to do our jobs.”
“The NFL goes to great lengths to protect what it calls ‘the integrity of the game.’ The same should be said for us as individuals. Integrity, the truthful interaction of word and deed, not only creates leaders in the locker room who are worthy of being followed; it is also vital for success at home.”
“A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion – several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.”
“The mistake British comedians often make is trying to beat the Americans at their own game – getting visiting American singers on their shows, talking about ‘sidewalk’ instead of ‘pavement,’ sitting on high stools in a white dinner jacket doing ballads. That way, you simply end up with a mid-Atlantic mishmash.”
“I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment… a job.”
“One thing I want people to know before I leave this game is I gave it my all.”
“There’s something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don’t deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It’s more fun.”
“Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It’s a tool.”
“I finish the game, and sometimes I don’t play very well, and my grandmother calls up to ask why I haven’t played well. Instead of being criticised by Pep, it’s my grandmother!”
“It is so boring when you have seven days without a game.”
“It’s not life or death it’s a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.”
“We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.”
“You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it’s a great game.”
“But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.”
“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.”
“You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.”
“My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.”
“When you’re not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it’s time to retaliate.”
“Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.”
“It’s bad enough that I’m an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.”
“I think in T20, things are related to pressure, and if you handle it well, you are on top of your game. I think about process and not too much about results.”
“I never think that I have to be at top every time. Obviously, I have to do well in every game and series; that’s what I try to do. I try to improve and work on the swing and variation in my bowling.”
“T20 is a game where you must expect the unexpected.”
“The first thing that comes to the mind when you are touring South Africa is bouncy wickets. But that is no surety of what kind of pitch you would get in the game.”
“My victory against Venus was the most special. She’s is a multi grand slam champion; her sister is Serena Williams. I was like, ‘What is going on?’ I broke her five times in a row. She is one of the best servers in the game.”
“Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game.”
“A lot of performance is based on confidence, knowing what you’re doing, and being familiar, and not thinking too much and trying to play at confident game speed.”
“Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games – it’s all important.”
“We don’t talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that’s all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself.”
“I like what I am doing. I enjoy all parts of the game – the team building, training camp, game days, the excitement of Sunday… it beats working.”
“If you’re well-prepared, you know what you’re doing, and you have an idea what the opponents can do – what their strengths and weaknesses are – once you get into the game, those adjustments will be – I won’t say easy, but relatively easier and more manageable.”
“When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.”
“Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I’ve been, for one thing.”
“Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.”
“Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.”
“When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.”
“You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.”
“Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.”
“For the first six years of his career, Sammy Sosa was one of the least patient players in the game. He could hit the long ball and steal a base, but he was undisciplined.”
“Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.”
“I’m a California Angels fan because that’s the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.”
“I think when you provide something absolutely free, the potential of abuse exists. Getting an education without skin in the game is not good.”
“Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.”
“The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There’s no question about it. I played my first football game there as an Atlanta Falcon.”
“If I’m the MVP of the NFL, and I lose a game and go to a press conference and walk out of it, that’s not the example I want to set for people.”
“I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.”
“If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.”
“When you’re at your absolute, most exhausted… That’s when you have to be at the top of your game.”
“None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I’m not saying that at all.”
“The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game – the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level – calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.”
“The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.”
“Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religion.”
“I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.”
“I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.”
“The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.”
“If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.”
“Even when you’re successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic… So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you’re dealing with problems.”
“My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That’s pretty narrow… I don’t view myself as a person who’s well-versed in very many subjects. I’m not proud of that.”
“I have a lot of great friends in football. The game was great to me. And I’ve been able to do other things in television and enjoy that, meeting those people.”
“I love football; I enjoy it. That’s why I’ve been in this game as many years as I have. I still like it. I get excited about it.”
“It was so weird that I would end up directing ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played,’ because, y’know, I’m not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.”
“I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.”
“Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.”
“It’s kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.”
“The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.”
“Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.”
“Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston’s most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.”
“Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.”
“Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.”
“In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.”
“Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?”
“I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.”
“I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can’t hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?”
“The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.”
“I don’t want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don’t want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.”
“Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I’m not that interesting.”
“Acting is playing – it’s actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.”
“Dinner, basketball game, four guys – classic.”
“When the game starts, you don’t really look at uniforms.”
“That’s the thing about pinch-hitting – you usually have a chance to make a difference in the game.”
“I’m just trying to go out there and play the game the right way and lead by example.”
“I’m not in this game to make the most money.”
“Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.”
“I had such a tie with my eyes and my hands. I could look at a telephone pole 40 yards away, take out a 7-iron, and hit it 10 times in a row. I had something special. And somehow, I really understood the game, all without having a lot of guidance.”
“I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.”
“I watch old ‘Truth or Consequences’ on Hulu. ‘Concentration.’ And ‘The Match Game’ with Gene Rayburn.”
“The public wouldn’t like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball’s greatest alibi – ‘We was robbed.’”
“Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.”
“That is what Christmas should be about, I think – togetherness and playfulness. It’s like a game.”
“Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.”
“Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can get them. You can send them a little decoration. Social games give you goals where you can help and reward your friends.”
“I read the three ‘Hunger Games’ books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote ‘Just a Game.’”
“I’ve been told that no one knows what happens in the future on ‘Game of Thrones.’ To my knowledge, I’ve shot one episode. So I’m as excited as anyone else to find out what happens.”
“After ‘Pitch Perfect’ premiered, I’ve got so many sweet expressions from people who enjoyed ‘Pitch Perfect’ and now the episode of ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“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.”
“That is the thing I’m most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage – at this stage of the game.”
“Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.”
“The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it’s not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.”
“Before a game, I prefer R&B and stuff that calms me down, like the Weeknd.”
“One of my favorite games of all time was on Nintendo 64 – ‘NFL Blitz.’ I don’t know why, I just loved that game – being able to hit people after the play and stuff was always fun.”
“There’s times in games where I feel like I can manipulate and control the game by doing a lot of things. And then there’s times where I feel like I’m not inside the flow of the game.”
“I don’t ever enjoy time away from the game. But it does make you appreciate what you have.”
“I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.”
“There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there’s times when they’re a little bit further than that.”
“I still think, when you go to the Garden, it’s a completely different feeling. The energy – there seems like there’s just a consistent buzz the entire game.”
“To me, I never get too caught up in the position thing. At the end of the day, you’re playing your game.”
“Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.”
“I have never played a game for the national title. Our goals always have been to win the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl. If we do that, then we consider it a successful season.”
“I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.”
“Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.”
“Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.”
“There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.”
“If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.”
“I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.”
“Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.”
“You know… life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can’t sink you if you’re with God.”
“If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.”
“I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn’t real healthy.”
“If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.”
“The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.”
“But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.”
“Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.”
“I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is ‘beat the heat.’ It’s always July under the lights.”
“Do I think God is going to win football games? Oh no. I never prayed to God to help us win a game. I would pray for the safety of the players. I would pray that they would do their best. I think God will answer that.”
“It’s the only way I think I’m ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I’m going to, and then I’ve got to. There’s no turning back now – win, lose or draw.”
“Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don’t leave it alone after a minute or two, you’re in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they’ve got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.”
“There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don’t seem to dress so nicely. That’s what I don’t like.”
“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.”
“One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It’s brutal. And there’s a trophy.”
“My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.”
“All I’ve done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.”
“First and foremost it’s important that we’re able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We’re doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.”
“Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here – nobody. I coach kids’ hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.”
“Now we’re doing it for different reasons. We’re doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the game, and make it an affordable night’s entertainment.”
“You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
“I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who’s never even attempted to play it.”
“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?”
“It’s about really being considerate of the culture in the game studios that Activision buys. That’s the biggest difference between us and any of our competitors.”
“I think a lot of the time we end up taking people who – and this is sort of a big cultural advantage at Activision – we find people who are, have a graduate degree of some kind – mainly it’s in the sciences – and they are in jobs that would never suggest that they were working for anything game related but that they’re passionate gamers.”
“Mobile gaming is the largest and fastest-growing opportunity for interactive entertainment, and we will have one of the world’s most successful mobile game companies and its talented teams providing great content to new customers, in new geographies, throughout the world.”
“We’ve always operated under the belief that you could run a video game business as professionally as you could run a consumer packaged goods business, and you wouldn’t diminish creativity.”
“I’m the type of person where, at the end of the game, if there’s 10 seconds left, and you need to get somebody the ball, and you’re behind by one, give me the ball. Get me the ball every single time.”
“Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.”
“The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.”
“I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You’re being paid to play a game! That’s pretty special.”
“Hockey is a tough game.”
“You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don’t all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.”
“At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.”
“The best poker game is seven-card stud, high-low splits. I mean, it’s the best if you don’t have to declare high or low, and can win it all with a low straight.”
“Senior tennis is like the younger game in slow motion. It is much more of a backcourt game. The player who had a big game in his prime finds it harder to play that same game as a senior. But any senior who could lob well when he was young can still hit a good lob.”
“That’s the trouble with the women’s game. Those women think they’re men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They’d be better off if they’d played like women.”
“I am the finest defensive player in the game.”
“The second-worst thing in the world is betting on a golf game and losing. The worst is not betting at all.”
“I’ve played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.”
“In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.”
“In Italy, one game you win and score, you cannot go in the street because the people are so enthusiastic, and when you lose they go crazy. After the game they wait for you.”
“Barcelona have a unique approach to the game based on specific types of footballers playing together as one.”
“Italian football is just how I imagined it to be – far more tactical than the Spanish game which is based on technique.”
“In my head, I am always saying that I should play every minute of every game because it is my job and it is what I love to do.”
“My only hope is to see more frequent game time and even play alongside Ibrahimovic. We have two different styles and we can complement each other well.”
“Messi scores three goals every game. If you score one goal, you’re not Messi.”
“It’s all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn’t move the game forward – the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please – so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.”
“People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in ‘Oklahoma!’ or ‘Pajama Game,’ and they say they’ll never forget it.”
“I don’t follow golf! I don’t keep up with golf or know who is coming or going. I am just here to play the game and be done with it.”
“The Lord has blessed me to play this game. I’m going to try to play it as long as I can. But at the same time, I want to be able to watch my kids grow up, so I’ve gotten to where I’m a little more mild, and I don’t take golf as seriously as I did in the earlier years of my career.”
“Offense is about rhythm and timing, and you’re not going to always have that every game.”
“Like a good play-caller, a good TV guy, if you get going on a good conversation, you can ad-lib a little bit. You keep it going. Just like in a game, if you call a couple plays and they’re working, you come back to them.”
“Winning – when the game is big, that’s all that matters. There’s the hoopla, the halftime concerts, whatever. But people always remember who wins. They never remember who loses.”
“People talk about players who should get more attention, but things like that have never bothered me. If I just play my game, walk out the back door without anybody seeing me, I’m fine with that.”
“It’s an honor to support such a worthy program. TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.”
“It’s a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!”
“The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.”
“The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, ‘106 & Park,’ music, and other things to fall back on.”
“People who know me know that I’m a rabid fan of the Kansas Jayhawks. My quirky habit is that every Kansas game is on my calendar, and, more often than not, I will plan and schedule flights around them so that I can engage and watch. I have already brainwashed my family to be Jayhawks fans.”
“I’m not big on game shows.”
“I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I’m always game for that.”
“It’s a young man’s game – standup comedy.”
“Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.”
“Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.”
“The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.”
“Baseball is a game of inches.”
“And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn’t do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.”
“My parents and my grandfather on my mom’s side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.”
“When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.”
“When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.”
“I’ve never really been told my game reflects like I’m from Los Angeles. I’m always told that I have more of an East Coast type game.”
“The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.”
“At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.”
“I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn’t expect.”
“As a note, I never once refer to ‘Train’ as a game in the rules, and I also never refer to the participants as players.”
“The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.”
“I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you’re listening to a radio play and you’re driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven’t seen the road in five minutes. It’s because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.”
“Brave plays the long game on behalf of users first, and also publishers, to win a better Web with fast, safe browsing, anonymous micropayments, and user control over data.”
“Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan’s family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.”
“When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft came along with HoloLens – there was a lot of stuff that people were doing before, but now the space really ignited.”
“Essentially, we’re always trying to reduce latency. As you try to reduce the latency of the experience, you can only get it down so far before we start running into the limitations of game engines, computing, the intensity of the experience you’re trying to compute.”
“We continue to see more and more of that – games we didn’t necessarily know would work in VR until a developer goes in and discovers the game mechanic that makes it come together. Sure enough, hockey can be a great VR experience.”
“AirMech was ported, I guess, but they made a complete VR mode for it. It’s a tabletop game. It’s incredibly compelling. I find it a lot more compelling in VR.”
“This is a whole new world to explore as a developer to go in and learn these new gameplay mechanics, to learn what it’s like to actually control a character from a top-down, ‘God’s eye’ view, and to figure out how the game camera can be controlled by the player’s head.”
“You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you’re now in a different, virtual environment. You’re somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app.”
“My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.”
“I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I’ve also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I’ve got the skills for both.”
“I’ve invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called ‘Iron Age: Council of the Clans,’ got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did.”
“I always like the players to be within 10 to 15 metres of each other. When the attacking players try what I am asking them to do, and it breaks down, there are players close enough to then go and win the ball back and counter press the game.”
“Celtic are one of the great clubs of the world. There’s a pressure here that’s different. You have to win every game. There’s not a club in England that has that.”
“I’ve always had one in my teams – that sort of central pivot that orchestrates the game.”
“My message is always very, very clear: I’m very concentrated on the game.”
“Football’s a global game.”
“It was important for me, when I left a club like Liverpool, to one, have a breather, but then my next job, I needed pressure. And there’s a pressure at Celtic. It’s a huge club; there’s an expectancy to win every game.”
“I’ve seen where the NFL guys get all over the ‘Madden’ creators for their ratings and how they don’t look good. One of my buddies plays in the NFL and he was so excited to be in ‘Madden,’ but then we got the game, and he was a 58.”
“Have you ever played a video game that didn’t have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.”
“Someone like Bruno Sammartino should never be a jobber on a video game, so and so forth. I think you have to pay respect.”
“When I think of a video game, I think about how I’d love to have Buddy Rogers vs. Ric Flair, something like that, where you can wrestle these Legends against each other from different periods and stuff.”
“I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.”
“The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.”
“Every game I’ve ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.”
“You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it’s a tough loss, you’re down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it’s amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you’re like it never happened.”
“Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.”
“With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I’m running out of chances.”
“There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.”
“I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It’s basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That’s what I think I’m most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.”
“I’m very impatient. I am. That’s the bane of my game. I don’t think about what I’m going to do – I just go hit it, I don’t stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.”
“You can’t get big in hockey. You need to be pliable… they’ve even taken fighting out of the game, so there’s no more of those big huge guys who just fight.”
“I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.”
“The physical aspects of the game, it’s probably the highlight for me. It’s a way for me to get a lot of anger and stress off of my shoulders.”
“I moved to Los Angeles, and ‘The Office’ became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.”
“It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You’re looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when ’91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.”
“Most game music is based on loops effectively.”
“The English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‘intellectual,’, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?”
“I’m in Alabama. First thing I want to say is Roll Tide! I was at the Alabama/Georgia game last year sitting right in the middle of the Alabama section and saw that they rolled all over them!”
“Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.”
“Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.”
“I don’t care how small the game. I want to win.”
“Just because you lost your last game doesn’t mean you change anything.”
“I would always treat my attacking game as the more natural part. With defence, you have to get yourself in positions to understand the game and understand situations and that might not be as natural a thing.”
“Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won’t allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.”
“Not too many people present a good ground game from the bottom. They survive a little bit, and it’s kind of boring. But not too many people are attacking from the bottom, hurting with elbows. They don’t bring that kind of game because it takes a long time to develop.”
“I grew up playing ‘Mortal Kombat’ as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.”
“I love ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Breaking Bad.’”
“The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I’m the most off my game most often.”
“Who would I be in ‘Game of Thrones?’ I love Brienne.”
“I’m definitely picky about what projects I take on. They have to be things I’m passionate about. I actually get to be creative when it comes to my mobile game. It’s really cool.”
“You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it’s promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on!”
“My hands. I’m constantly working on my hands. I’m constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I’m at with my career and where I’m at as an athlete. I’m somewhat happy, but never satisfied.”
“At the top of my career, I wasn’t at the top of my game.”
“I’ve always approached the game, going back to when I got drafted in 2012 to Denver, like I was going to be the starter. That’s how you have to prepare, whether you are first string, second string or third string, because you never know when something is going to happen to the guy in front of you.”
“The emotions can take you out of a game.”
“There’s not a lot of time to have conversations on the field during the game. That’s where the trust and the practice comes into play, through practice, through off-site throwing sessions; that’s where you build that trust and build that cohesion with a wide receiver.”
“Football is a game you’re supposed to have fun in.”
“When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.”
“Any coach, any team in the NFL, if they had Peyton Manning healthy and ready to play, I think we all know who is going to play in the game.”
“Obviously it happens very fast on the field during the game; if anything, it’s more of a feel. You feel when the pocket is collapsing around you. You feel when someone is close to you. It is a split-second decision.”
“When Peyton went into the game and remained the starter, it was OK with me because our team was winning games. We won a championship.”
“It’s very exciting… what DeAndre brings to the game is truly special. To have the opportunity to play with a football player like that, that’s what gets a quarterback out of bed in the morning.”
“Any competitor would be frustrated in that moment… but it certainly made sense what Coach Kubiak did for the playoff run. I got replaced by Peyton Manning… I think we all know who is going to play in the game.”
“In the United States, viewers don’t get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn’t get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.”
“If we sit here and think about what other teams are doing and the points game and all that, we’re going to go crazy, and it’s not going to help our game.”
“I went to a football game, and people were shouting my dad’s name, and I was like, ‘What? Oh my God.’”
“I’ve played the game for 23, 24 years. Four months off, I’m not going to lose it.”
“It’s really impressive when you’ve got two teams that are really battling it out, low-scoring game, a pitcher’s duel. To me, that’s so fun to watch.”
“I’ve got a good game plan… keep things simple with my golf swing.”
“I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.”
“I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.”
“Stand-up comedy is all you. It’s your show, it’s your game. You control every aspect of it – of that experience and that expression. There’s really nothing quite as satisfying.”
“I couldn’t enjoy ‘A Dance With Dragons,’ unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on ‘Game of Thrones,’ so all I could do is think, ‘We’re going to have to shift that,’ ‘We won’t be able to afford that,’ or ‘That’s a great scene.’”
“In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor’s arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.”
“The first Nintendo game I ever got was ‘Clash at Demonhead.’ I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, ‘Sailor Moon.’”
“’Monkey Island 2′ was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.”
“I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I’m going into second base.”
“Playing football, I’m getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That’s how I play baseball. I want to hit you.”
“Seriously, it takes me, like, 30 minutes to do my hair before a game.”
“We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it.”
“Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.”
“I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you’re up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.”
“On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.”
“We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we’d seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.”
“To us, ‘The Amazing Race’ takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?”
“Al Sharpton is not important. He’s nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.”
“The era of ‘The Jungle Book’ was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.”
“I never go into a fight thinking, ‘I have to finish this guy’ – that’s not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight.”
“You just have to fight the perfect fight to win. You have to have a game plan and follow it. You have to develop every time you go out there and keep getting better.”
“Let me be clear: MMA training is tough work, and every fighter has had to enter the Octagon with aches and pains as well as exhaustion. This is the game.”
“The name of the game is improving, and I’ve done that.”
“If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.”
“’Game of Thrones’ has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it’s complete fantasy.”
“I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.”
“It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don’t always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.”
“I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.”
“My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.”
“You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.”
“I kept thinking, ‘this must be the coolest job – I’d like to be a professional baseball player.’ They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.”
“When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.”
“Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.”
“I never understood that when I heard people retire – they said they missed being around the guys. I don’t have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.”
“I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.”
“The thing I don’t miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.”
“All of us growing up, if you’re a professional player or a college player, you’re molding your game after guys. You see guys, you see things guys do. Like Randy Moss, I’m a Randy Moss guy.”
“When you’re in the game, you’re still in the moment.”
“Sometimes, it’s just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.”
“I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what’s it all for?”
“It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.”
“To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you might have worked with it or you personally know, it’s cool; it’s awesome to sit back and say I know that guy because you’re more of a fan of that game and that person.”
“I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I’m not doing all this hard work for nothing.”
“Just try to add more things to my game each year.”
“Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you’ve got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.”
“I don’t even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.”
“I know when it’s getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.”
“Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you’re thinking, you’re wrong automatically.”
“My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I’ll put myself in the best situation to do so.”
“There’s not a Sunday that goes past that I’m not excited to play this game. I feel as if I’m a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.”
“I’m kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you’ve figured it out is when you’re going to struggle.”
“I’m trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere – over my notes – and I – how do you ‘lean in’ at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?”
“You got people that come in, one album, two albums, and they’re gone. A lot of people couldn’t take the break I took and come back into the game, and people be checking for them.”
“I don’t think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn’t been injured.”
“I’m completely the opposite of what I play on ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“There doesn’t seem to be a religion in ‘Game of Thrones’ that’s totally peaceful… we haven’t seen any Buddhists.”
“Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It’s important to see trends for what they are: a game.”
“My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you’re talking ‘Madden.’”
“We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What’s funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the ‘Madden’ game; that’s how they learn to read offenses and defenses.”
“You want to play in every game, and you especially don’t want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don’t want to hurt anyone on the other team.”
“There’s always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it’s just important that you know how to handle expectations.”
“Researchers, treatment providers – we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.”
“As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.”
“I’ve slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.”
“The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.”
“I don’t have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.”
“If you can get a laugh out of a name, you’re ahead of the game.”
“This is a strange game.”
“I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.”
“I was one of those players who loved to train and tried to enjoy every day, every session, every game.”
“I usually eat a salad for lunch and before a game since it keeps me feeling healthy and energized on the field. I love piling on the toppings: the more colorful the better! I usually do nuts, fruit and avocado, but I also mix up my creations with different toppings and lettuces.”
“I know that I’m a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That’s the nature of my game.”
“I don’t put on makeup when I’m getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?”
“I like to be funny. I can’t stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.”
“The formula to beat the press is simple; it’s the execution that’s tough. If you have the quality to do so, you pass your way through it. And if you don’t, you just boot it over the top. And then it becomes a game of winning ‘second balls’.”
“I have never seen a talent like Ronaldo. He always scores, scores, scores. The first game he played for Milan, Sienna away, I said to him, ‘I can’t put you on the pitch. You are 100kg.’ ‘Mister,’ he said, ‘don’t worry, I will score.’ I put him in, and he scored twice.”
“I’m in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.”
“Every Hispanic player goes through that. It’s a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to be able to express yourself fully in a game.”
“I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.”
“With ‘The Angel’s Game’, there was a lot of pressure from the expectations – expectations from the book industry and from readers; it’s natural.”
“Sometimes in a game – even with the best will in the world – a striker can drift out for 10 minutes and then come back into it.”
“It’s funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there’d be 800,000 people at that game, I think.”
“I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I’ve been competing with men my whole life.”
“I love the feeling of being in front of a live crowd and performing and just kind of letting loose and getting the crowd involved, and I got to perform at the Superbowl and at the Staples Center, you know, at the Lakers game, which was amazing.”
“I’m game to make a fool of myself.”
“People look at me like I’m on my way out of the game. I’m just getting started.”
“When I step on that basketball court, I’m thinking about basketball, I’m thinking about winning – but there’s so much that goes into thought about how I’m going to open this game up to others. It’s so much more than just basketball.”
“It’s easier for me to let the game just come to me.”
“Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can’t play nice.”
“When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don’t risk making mistakes.”
“The fame game’s fun, but it’s not forever.”
“Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.”
“Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life’s little horrors begin.”
“There are a lot of things to my game I can still improve, but everyone can.”
“I don’t know, I always get the question ‘how do you feel after the game today?’ and, of course, if you’re winning you feel great and if you lose you don’t feel good. I think that’s a pretty obvious question.”
“With the depth of the women’s game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.”
“The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.”
“With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the ‘Rock Band’ game is a tribute to rock rather than an affront.”
“Not even the creators of ‘Rock Band’ could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There is, however, a sad similarity between ‘Rock Band’ and some actual bands, and that is the attempt at realness.”
“I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.”
“Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.”
“I listen to worship music before the game to calm my nerves and just go out and have fun. It’s a game, and I try to enjoy it.”
“I know we’re not going undefeated. I know I’m not going to throw a touchdown every game.”
“A lot of different things go into calling the run game – especially at the line of scrimmage.”
“Everything that comes with the game, I think I will handle it extremely easily. I don’t let a lot of that outside stuff bother me.”
“In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.”
“When you have a script, and you’re discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that’s a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.”
“It’s hard because there’s a part of me that wants ‘True Detective’ to win every award we’re nominated for. But I’m a huge fan of ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“Divorce is a game played by lawyers.”
“Hockey should have some appeal. It’s a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring.”
“There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.”
“If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.”
“The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.”
“I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.”
“Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.”
“The All-Star Game represents everything we as a nation love about basketball on and off the court – diversity, sportsmanship and, most of all, a commitment to unite fans.”
“Here’s a more controversial idea: In general, Democrats and progressives ought to allow Trump considerable room to choose his own employees – far more room than Republicans allowed during the Obama administration. Tit-for-tat is a dangerous game.”
“They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I’d nominate squash.”
“Running is just a game to me.”
“My whole aim in whatever I say, whatever I do, is to follow the peaceful line of having people live together… If we can all play in that game, the world will be a better place.”
“When things are right and things are focused, it’s a game to me, and I’m there just stalking and punching and grabbing and tearing people up.”
“I wish we didn’t have to be nude to be noticed… But given the game as it exists, women make decisions. For instance, the Miss America contest is, in all of its states… the single greatest source of scholarship money for women in the United States.”
“I worked at a Web development shop and other start-ups and eventually started a project called Ludicorp, which built an online game. We soon ran out of money, and Flickr was the last-ditch effort to save the company. It quickly became a very unstoppable juggernaut.”
“’Game Never Ending’ came out of an earlier game called ‘NeoPets,’ a children’s game that adults also played. It was a series of mini-games where you accrue points and can acquire objects – houses and all kinds of stuff.”
“The bigger the game, the better I liked it. Not that I was about to let anybody know I was excited. I approached every game the same way. One pitch, one hitter at a time.”
“What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn’t played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.”
“There’s no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything – from a wig I’ve seen to an expression I’ve heard someone use.”
“As a former NCAA basketball player, many of the skills I now rely on as a leader took root on the basketball court: teamwork, integrity, and resilience are just some of the traits I’ve carried over into my professional game.”
“We share the USTA’s vision to promote and expand the game of tennis. I have been playing the game since I was 6 years old with my dad and five brothers, so I know firsthand how it teaches life lessons: integrity, dedication, and competitiveness.”
“You don’t have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.”
“I loved numbers from a very young age. I feel like my mom led me there because, instead of giving me Game Boy and PlayStations and a TV, she gave me educational software on our family computer for Math and stuff.”
“Even the most ardent Obama supporter can’t, in good conscience or sound mental state, argue that President Obama has changed the way Washington works. He’s just played the game a little better, if you’re being charitable on how you keep score on that count.”
“People see the nice side of the game, but behind it all, there is a sacrifice that they don’t see: the pressure, the repercussion, the way that impinges on your life.”
“The Premier League benefits from foreigners, and the game’s evolved in a way that’s beneficial, but you can’t lose the roots of the English game.”
“Since I was a kid, even in school I gave my best, playing with my friends, 100 per cent sweating, fighting. When I was playing any game, even video games, I wanted to win.”
“My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I don’t know.”
“Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it’s a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.”
“You never know what the future might bring. I’m taking it game by game and play by play.”
“It’s a great honor to be an Under Armour All-American and to follow in the fast-growing tradition of this game. It’s a great opportunity to spend the New Year in Florida, which is going to be a little warmer than Buffalo.”
“You’ve got to bring it. You’ve got to make sure people feel the energy you’re trying to bring to the game.”
“People didn’t think Christian Ponder would get picked in the first or second round, but they don’t understand how prepared he was for the pro game through the FSU coaching staff.”
“Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.”
“Jon Jones’ skill set is unique. Jon Jones goes out there and does video game moves that the announcers can’t even call because they’ve never seen them before.”
“I basically got into the radio game ’cause I was looking to do something positive with my life.”
“Poor people are too stupid to know they’re just chess pieces in a game.”
“I know I’m never as good or bad as one single performance. I’ve never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.”
“I know that I’m never as good or bad as any single performance. I’ve never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.”
“What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.”
“When I get on TV, I’m going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I’m going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I’m very aware of all the social stuff going on.”
“I remember I’d be sleeping in the airport at 5 o’clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.”
“Prediction is a mug’s game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.”
“The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.”
“With me, baseball will never grow old. In my own estimation, it may not have improved so much as many believe, but regardless of everything, it is the same good old game. If I have contributed to its success, I do not refer to this in the sense of boasting. I had to or fall out of the ranks.”
“I think it is incumbent on the rest of us – and I would suggest that includes other European leaders – to pause in what has become a very popular game of telling the Greeks how to run their lives.”
“If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow’s ear. When the script’s as good as those on ‘Game of Thrones,’ say, I don’t think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.”
“I don’t like watching television too much; it tires me out for some reason. But I saw a fair bit of ‘Game of Thrones’ because it was so good. I mostly watched episodes that I wasn’t in.”
“There is a huge fan base; they’re very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished – before I started working on the series, I didn’t know anything about ‘Game of Thrones.’ I hadn’t heard of the books.”
“Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many other British actors, I haven’t been building up my pension appearing in films like ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Harry Potter,’ but fantasy has now got a grip on me. I am also appearing in ‘Game of Thrones’ as the head of the House of Lannister.”
“Medicare’s top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system.”
“When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.”
“Chess: It’s like alcohol. It’s a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.”
“When the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2015 NBA Finals to Golden State, LeBron James sat motionless in the locker room, staring straight ahead, still wearing his game jersey, for 45 minutes after the final buzzer. Here was a guy immensely wealthy, widely admired, at the peak of his powers – yet stricken, inconsolable.”
“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn’t lend itself to histrionics. You ‘take in’ a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.”
“When I die, it’s going to read, ‘Game Show Fixture Passes Away.’ Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn’t bother me.”
“You can’t do anything else once you do game shows. You have no career.”
“For ‘Inhuman,’ it’s a ‘chess game’ series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it’s about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It’s about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.”
“I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I’ll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I’ll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.”
“In the early ’80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.”
“Well, I just can’t play the game anymore. I’m 63 years old, and I’ve been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don’t need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.”
“I think too many of the politicians in Washington have forgotten simple ideals like solving problems and helping neighbors. The Washington game is more about scoring points or sticking it to the other guy.”
“Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.”
“When I first started doing comedy, I was 42 years old, and I was the brother of one of the most celebrated comics in history who made his name in the game 20 years earlier.”
“School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.”
“The entire existence of the NFL – and of football at any level, for all of that – rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.”
“To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game’s respectability rested.”
“Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.”
“When I was about 12, I saw Mark Rylance do this play in New York City called ‘Jerusalem’ and that really changed the game for me.”
“When I’d get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 – even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.”
“Golf is such a wonderful game. I love it to death.”
“I was a wide receiver at the University of Missouri but dropped out, having never gotten in a game.”
“I remember my first commercial. This is really great ‘Degrassi’ trivia: The character Toby on ‘Degrassi,’ played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, ‘Mommy, I can do it!’”
“It’s so hard to tell people I’m in a video game… just because I grew up with my dad being in a video game.”
“I started very late in the game, and it hasn’t changed my path to success.”
“I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I’ve shown more of myself, but it’s a comedy, and people understand that it’s a game we play.”
“Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you’re ahead of the game.”
“The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played it and the way I respected it and the way I carried myself through the process.”
“I played football first. I love football. I’m a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I’ve been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.”
“My game is – and I’m not saying I’m slow or anything like that, but my game is mental. My game is shooting; my game is efficiency. If I’m healthy, I feel like I can be effective for a long time.”
“Anyone who’s married to Mariah Carey – I’m pretty sure – doesn’t have a great sense of humor. I mean, let’s be honest: she’s ridiculous. What is her game plan?”
“Irrespective of who’s up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own strengths to get as far as I can, and tried to adapt my game according to the match-situation.”
“The Luke Cage you saw in Season One was a reluctant hero. He was trying to figure out if he wanted to be a hero in the first place. And then fate intervened and forced him to step up his game.”
“I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn’t take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn’t beating the system but reinforcing it.”
“Sometimes, the startup game works in your favor just because you got in at the right time and right environment. Other times, you’re a little too late entering an already crowded space. But startups with strong fundamentals withstand external conditions and come out ahead in good or bad times.”
“Golf is a thinking man’s game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don’t know what to do with them, you’ve got troubles.”
“Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you’re using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.”
“I do something that I don’t think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn’t the announcer warm up?”
“I’ve got to be right on top of the action, or else all those people watching the game will say, ‘This guy’s not very good.’”
“Email knocks me off my game. It’s just for the morning commute and end of the day. Some might think I’m slow to respond, but those who need to reach me know to send me a text during those hours.”
“The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.”
“If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don’t think I’d still be playing.”
“In ‘Alpha Protocol,’ right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.”
“I don’t consider football fun. It’s not like a water park or a baseball game.”
“Folks who blithely disregard the benefits of football likely haven’t played or are being intellectually dishonest. The game, perhaps more than any other, requires absolute dedication and teamwork. Yes, I ultimately quit, and if I ever have a son, he won’t play, but I’ll always cherish the lessons I learned from football.”
“My height might be a disadvantage in some parts of my game, but it is a big advantage in rushing the passer.”
“I think it’s unfair to punish players for inherent faults in the game.”
“The reality is that it’s just the nature of the game. It’s the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can’t take that out of the game.”
“The idea that just the basis of the game, repetitive hits, could bring on a cascade of issues later in life, that was – it changed the game for me.”
“I never played the game for money and attention. I love football, and I’ve had a blast.”
“About 10 percent of the time, I miss 3 to 5 percent of the game. I look back, and I’m happy that I played. I’m not wistful. You miss big games. I miss the locker room camaraderie. Sometimes I miss the lifestyle.”
“I think flag football is a great alternative, and it’s a great game in its own right. It’s a wonderful alternative. You can develop all of the skills and athleticism and glean the lessons you can from contact football through playing flag.”
“My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn’t play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take… but on a lead play, on a power play, there’s violence.”
“Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It’s a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.”
“Football is an elective. It’s a game. It’s make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.”
“Obviously, not the biggest guy in stature. Straight-line speed wasn’t my forte either. But I play very fast because I know the game. I take proper angles and know all my assignments.”
“The game has gotten a lot faster. I was anticipating changes as far back as when I first came into the league, when the spacing was changing, and big guys were playing in different spaces on the floor. But when that change actually happens, and it happens so quickly, it’s just amazing.”
“That’s one thing I pride myself a lot more now, playing defense, I do what the team needs me to do. If we need a stop, I’ll do it. That’s a major, major part of my game now.”
“I’m always going to be around the game of basketball. I plan to keep my options open as a player moving forward, but that’s not coaching. Maybe front office work, working with teams and spreading the game, maybe teaching the game to young people, that’s something that’s a very big passion.”
“To be honest, I’m looking at today’s game, and I put myself in that position and how I would benefit from the faster basketball, more threes, catch-and-go opportunities, attacking the paint with more space, that’s what kind of gets me juiced up and riled up when I watch today’s game.”
“When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic. I used to go crazy. If I cried, it’d be like, ‘Ah, Chris is crying again… damn it… come on, get in the car.’ All that over one game. I hated to lose.”
“I’m more mature, my game is more mature, and I can do a bunch of things on and off the court to fully maximize this team’s potential.”
“If I can’t play, there’s no reason to go. To watch the game without me in it, is just no point doing that.”
“I feel that I was chosen to do it. It’s taken me all over the world and given me opportunities to take care of my family and give me experiences that I would not have had. I think about those things and what I owe to the game.”
“If you’re an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family.”
“I remember in high school, I ate some nachos probably like an hour, half-hour before the game, and it’s kind of gross, but a little of it came up while I was running – you know you get that burp – and I literally coughed at the same time, and it got caught in my nose, and it was during the game.”
“I don’t jump as high and I’m not as fast as Dwyane Wade and LeBron James. I don’t have many highlight plays, but I can play this game.”
“If they need me to score 30, I can go do it. If they need me to just rebound and defend, I can do that. I can play this game, just in case people forgot. You just carry that chip on your shoulder, and you go out there and do what I was put on this Earth to do.”
“I’m a believer that you’re as good as your best game because that’s the level that you can get to.”
“I don’t like talking past the next game. It’s never served me right in the past.”
“I shared a dressing room with Alan Shearer. I used to watch the opposition looking at him, and they’d be thinking they need to score more than one because Shearer is going to score, and he scores every game. That psychological advantage is fantastic.”
“Concentration and focus – they are very important, just as important as in anything, I suppose, if you’re going to succeed. I’ve seen a lot of good players on the training ground, but when it comes to the game, they can’t keep the same levels up on a Saturday.”
“I did a game at Atari Research called ‘Excalibur’ about the Arthurian legends. At the time, it was very, very complicated, very involved and so forth and actually still looks better than some of the modern games in terms of its richness and involvement.”
“Atari collapsed in ’84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called ‘Trust and Betrayal’, which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.”
“There’s established gaming IP that’s coming from console to mobile, which is interesting. Everything is converging a little bit toward mobile devices in the living room. On the casual side, the graphics and animation and game design and all of those variables are improving.”
“Ninety percent of my game is mental. It’s my concentration that has gotten me this far.”
“You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.”
“When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch – where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.”
“Videogames make you feel like you’re actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you’re actually accomplishing stuff.”
“As a cornerback, you only get probably about 5 chances to really impact the game.”
“I like playmakers, man, if it’s a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who’s going to be able to change the game.”
“Coming in as an undrafted rookie, I wanted to make sure I competed every day against those talented receivers. Brandon Lloyd, he was a great guy to go against because I did a lot of scout team. Going against him every day along with all those other receivers really helped me polish my game.”
“I actually do quite well in Omaha. It’s one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold ’em.”
“Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don’t get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.”
“When you have the smaller guards – whether it be 6 feet, 6-2, 6-1, or under – they’re the most energetic, and they set the pace, whether it be shoot-around, practice, and in the game.”
“The game changes when you play good defense and don’t come up with the ball.”
“To me, you have to take your schedule and just take things one game at a time.”
“I guess I get the most notoriety from my shooting. But I like passing and movement, making the game easy.”
“I’ve always found myself watching the NBA game more, even when I was coaching college. So I’ll probably gravitate toward doing something in the NBA.”
“I just always loved the game and really loved playing the game.”
“My game hasn’t changed too much. I’m doing the same things as I did in college, except I’m outside more. It’s tough to go inside in the pros because the players are bigger.”
“I play in the congressional baseball game.”
“I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.”
“My go-to line when it’s the resume game is that I’m either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.”
“I clearly haven’t made a good enough impression on people. My go-to line when it’s the resume game is that I’m either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.”
“I’ve eaten weird things through the course of my life. I’ve eaten wild game, I’ve eaten possum – possum’s no good.”
“Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.”
“Making a killer breakfast burrito? I got game. Washing the car? Love it. Doing the dishes? I love it more than washing the car.”
“I’m a professional; I feel I’m one of the best in the game.”
“I play rec softball sort of religiously. I’m a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I’d go to a Yankees game every week.”
“I don’t think that Michael Jackson died. He’s probably dead now, but I don’t think he died when they said he did. I think he wanted out of the game anyway, so he just disappeared.”
“I would like to fight as hard as I possibly can in each and every game and win or lose, leave it at that, and move forward. I know in my heart that that is the mindset I need to be a successful and happy athlete.”
“I find the ball, and I think, ‘Where’s the ball going, and where do I need to go?’ It just puts me back in the game, and it’s the simplest thing, but it’s become sort of like my soccer mantra. I simply use the ball as my focus point and move back into position, and the distracting thoughts disappear, and I’m right back in the game.”
“If I couldn’t get to the national team, I wanted to get as much as I could out of soccer, and I think moving abroad was my opportunity to do that. I think that, in turn, playing with that freedom and that spirit allowed me to play a lot better. I escalated my game quickly just by being happy.”
“I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn’t score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.”
“On game days, I do yoga as just a really short routine. It’s more to warm up and to calm down in the morning.”
“I’ve never been cold during a big game. It’s the adrenaline. You’re always moving.”
“If I simply stay in that moment on the pitch and read the game, I can do so much more.”
“I don’t mind who takes the spotlight. If you win the game, then it doesn’t really matter.”
“I think everybody knows if they played a good or a bad game.”
“During the game, you don’t really notice how many guys have touched the ball because you’re just focusing on where you need to be.”
“Generally, you’re going into every game with excitement. You know you’re going to play forward and not going to defend. You’re going to try to create and score goals.”
“I have felt in my head that I would like to play, but then you listen to your body and accept it might be better that you do not play every game immediately after an injury.”
“The fun of the game is right now. A lot of people don’t really realize that. They think you have to get to the top to start having fun, and it’s not. It’s the journey getting to the top where everything is always great. I’m on the ‘Ferris Bueller’ thing where I look around every once in a while so I don’t miss it.”
“You pay attention to detail. You try to win every time. You play tough. And when you play the right way and be accountable to each other, you’re going to have success and enjoy the game that much more.”
“You can’t do something stupid at any time. If you do, you’re going to get technicals or flagrant fouls, or you’re going to get kicked out of the game or whatever.”
“If you want the whole college basketball experience, you have to go to a game at Cameroon Indoor!”
“All I wanted to do was win. People have to remember that when I came to Duke, they’d started to get a reputation that they can’t win the big game. We were aware of that, and we hated it.”
“I always played my best when I respected my opponent and was a little scared of them because they could beat me. Every game I played in college, that was the case.”
“Being a physical specimen doesn’t mean you’re any good at playing inside. Positioning, using your head, the mental stuff – that’s my game. That’s what makes a good inside player.”
“When I was 15 years old, the Duke-UNC game looked like the funnest game in the world to be a part of. So I chose to make sure I was a part of it for four years, and when I was at Duke, it exceeded all my expectations.”
“I’m versatile in every part of my game – except being nice, which I am only at home.”
“Any opposing gym we go into, I want them to hate me. At the end of the game, I want to be beating their team so bad that they should hate me.”
“Basketball is a non-aggressive game. So when emotions are high, there’s a very low chance to get angry or yell. So that’s why it never happens out there.”
“Just knowing that people are going to the game or something with your jersey on and supporting you is really exciting and was a dream of mine. Every time I see it at Dortmund, at games, it’s still exciting and gets you really excited to play.”
“I always tried to bring confidence to the game.”
“I love watching the game, and I loved watching the World Cup.”
“It’s hard to always listen to your dad when you get older. You want to move on, but he has the knowledge. I think he did just the right amount of pushing me but also letting me do my thing, and just making sure that I always enjoyed the game, and I’m not feeling pressured.”
“In a moment, or type of pressure, you just go out, and I play like I always do. Because it’s a big moment, I’m not going to shy away and not show my talents. I’ll show what I can do and show it every game.”
“I’ve never seen a town that’s so connected and so proud of their team and so passionate about the game. That’s what makes Dortmund stand out so much. The weather isn’t very good, but it’s just a great town to live in. It’s really known for the soccer.”
“My coaches taught me a lot is about taking the first touch positive, and I think that’s what I’ve tried to base my game off of. A big part of it is being aggressive.”
“It’s not just about getting the ball and figuring out every time how you can keep possession, because there are plenty of players who can do that. That’s just not how I view my performances. It’s about, What can I do to change the game and the attacking aspect of the game?”
“I try to have an impact on every game, whether it’s by making runs or using quick moves to try to get by defenders or making a nice pass to help my team.”
“At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe’s diplomat. He carries the game’s standard and is really the line of where the game starts.”
“The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I’d love to do that. I’m a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.”
“For me, it’s different every year. Some years, it takes me a while to feel comfortable again, to feel like I’m ready to go. Other years, it clicks real fast. Sometimes, it just takes one game or one swing to feel like, ‘OK, I’m back.’”
“Obviously, you want to bring as much attention to the game as possible and grow baseball as much as you can. It’s important. It comes with the responsibility that being a league M.V.P. comes with.”
“I don’t think baseball is ever going to be the fast-paced game that football or basketball is. It’s never going to be constant action. That’s never how the game is played.”
“It’s hard enough to get four hits in a Major League Baseball game, yet alone have them all be the right ones and the right sequence.”
“One game at a time – just win one game at a time.”
“You want to get everything out of this game. You want to experience as much of it as there is to offer, because you never how long you’re going to get to do it. It’s short.”
“It’s all about today, the present, the game you have in front of you.”
“I think you just prepare the way you’ve always prepared and go about the game the same way and see where you stand at the end of the year.”
“Every game matters.”
“It’s one thing to make the big leagues, but it’s another thing to make it to an all-star game.”
“I had a lot of friends, family friends, that had season tickets, and we’d all go when we were little kids. And you’d go after you played your own baseball game and change out of your uniform in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium to go put on street clothes and go watch the game.”
“I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.”
“I’m actually excited about turning 60. I feel on top of my game.”
“I felt like by doing ‘Turned Up,’ it was something for my fans. It would be a great outlet for me to come out musically and really step up my game.”
“My mother wasn’t controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it’s the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I’ll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.”
“Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh’s politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. ‘Fair game,’ they said, even when crass and crude. That’s just the way it is.”
“They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It’s futile beyond belief. I’ve never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game – that’s my peculiar obsession.”
“If you tried to make a ‘Game of Thrones’ movie, you’d have to eliminate two-thirds of the characters, and there’d have to be one storyline, but on TV, you can really get to know the characters in a way that there just isn’t time to do in a movie.”
“You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile.”
“If you’re going to play the bargaining game, you just need to make the other side mad. You want them to get a little annoyed. Then you know that you’ve come in with a good price.”
“A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it’s an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation – where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that’s the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.”
“I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.”
“I’m a competitive type of person, whether it’s playing a game of basketball or playing business games.”
“A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.”
“Aldo needed to feel McGregor out. Coming right at him ran into McGregor’s game. I thought he’d start by taking him down and confuse him a little. Maybe he had all that stuff planned, but one combo, and Aldo got caught. That happens, especially with a guy as talented and precise and full of power as Conor.”
“Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.”
“You’re defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself.”
“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
“One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called ‘kill the man.’ It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don’t know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.”
“Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I’ve been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.”
“My last game, scoring a goal, was incredible.”
“What I always say is that young people need older people to develop their game, grow as people, and understand what Real means.”
“I believe in a European League. I would like to see more quality in the game, and fewer games mean more quality.”
“People don’t come to the stadiums for every match because if there is a game every three days, it is difficult. You need to make games more exclusive and make them more special.”
“To win you’ve got to stay in the game.”
“I never go to parties. I never go to premieres. You can’t play that game, because it’s short-lived and you want a life.”
“What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.”
“It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that’s fun.”
“When I see myself in the videogame it’s amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I’m looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.”
“What I’ve noticed in this game is how EA has even duplicated my moves and my style of play perfectly. It is really incredible and a lot of fun to play.”
“I don’t just want to go out there and do my job – I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high standard. I expect to make plays that alter the game, and if I don’t, I hold myself accountable.”
“You obviously want to start the season out with a big game and to follow it up by continuing to get better.”
“In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.”
“Personally, I would say the ‘master’ of this whole thing is fate… Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it’s up to them to avoid being used.”
“It’s always difficult, when you have such a quick turnaround and a long flight, to try to get ready for a game so quickly.”
“You’re seeing more players come back to MLS in their prime and the homegrown talent coming up that’s of high quality. I think that game’s always continuing to grow, and I’m happy to be part of that growth and come back to the league.”
“As I’ve become a professional, I just feel more pressure to produce, to score goals and get assists. I know I’m a good player, but it gives evidence of how good you are if you’re able to look at how many passes you’ve made in a game or how many chances you create. It’s in the books. It’s become more about stats as I’ve become a professional.”
“For soccer, it was Diego Maradona, and then another idol for me was Michael Jordan. To see them play and how that they could impact the game was pretty special.”
“It’s easier to destroy than it is to create, but I’ve always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.”
“If you’re having sequences where you’re keeping 20 passes or more, then you’re only growing in confidence in the game.”
“You’re just grateful for every day, grateful for every game you get to play in because you never know when it’s going to be taken from you.”
“It’s always great to be home and play in front of family and friends, especially for a big game.”
“My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.”
“When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run – the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans – propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.”
“Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.”
“There’s a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.”
“I love the game and played from 13 to 35 for almost every single day.”
“If I had a great game, and I was hot, usually we were up by 20-30 going into the fourth quarter. That means I don’t get to play in the fourth quarter.”
“This should be a written rule: Guards should always defer to centers. I don’t care how good you are, those big guys make the game so much easier for every other person on that team, and without them, everyone else needs to work twice as hard.”
“There’s a lot to be learned by watching. I think the younger generation could fare a lot better in their game if they could sit down and watch some of the games of the past.”
“You may score 50 points and grab 40 rebounds and have 30 assists, but if I don’t make the free throws at the end of the game, and we lose, does that make you not a champion?”
“You talk about demand, and these are big-name NBA players fighting for spots to be in the BIG3. So you gotta bring your game to make a squad, and that’s what Ice Cube’s envisioned when he started the BIG3.”
“I had a lot of wonderful accomplishments in the game of basketball. Of course, to win a gold medal for your country – it doesn’t get any better than that.”
“I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level.”
“The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It’s an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you’ll be saying, ‘Wow, it’s over already?’ You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.”
“I am a kid from the ’70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.”
“I had an amazing experience with ‘Third Watch’. I was so happy when ‘The Game’ came back because I never wanted it to end. And then with ‘Burn Notice,’ too.”
“Whenever they bring out a new Zelda game, I’m there. I don’t know if it’s Link or if it’s Zelda with the pointy little ears. I remember thinking as a kid that she was pretty hot.”
“As far as standup goes, I really feel like I can stand and bang and trade with anybody in the game.”
“My SAG card, the first TV job that I ever had was ‘Pan Am’ as a reporter. But that may not be entirely true. I did some motion capture work, doing reshoots on a video game.”
“I’m still trying to improve. Everything I can do to improve every part of my game – I’m going to do it.”
“I haven’t seen a quarterback play a perfect game yet.”
“I think the biggest part of my game that’s underestimated is the mental part of it.”
“Feelings aren’t going to help me win a game.”
“I was on a game show and now I’m the game show girl who got a movie. That’s how I consider myself.”
“This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.”
“Ever since I was a little boy, I had my eyes set on being able to say I was a professional athlete. I worked hard every day to make sure that it became a possibility and sacrificed a lot for the game of football.”
“Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.”
“I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It’s a great game for making connections.”
“I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it’s extremely important that this golf look like – that golf look like America.”
“Caring for our veterans should be non-negotiable. And it definitely should not be affected by playing the same old Washington party politics game.”
“The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.”
“Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.”
“I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.”
“Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.”
“I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.”
“I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.”
“There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.”
“I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.”
“I’m committed to the fight game.”
“You can’t manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There’s still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don’t have a method that I can go back to – they either come or they don’t.”
“In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn’t see problems, even. At the federal level, it’s often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it’s just not local that. It’s win-win-win.”
“If I don’t make the team out of spring training, I’ll keep a good attitude. I’ll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.”
“I’m Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I’ve never even been to a football game.”
“It’s a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don’t have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.”
“If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it. I believe that wholeheartedly.”
“Whether there’s 100 people or 100,000, we bring our ‘A’ game every single time. We’re full-speed on stage. We kick the audience’s butt.”
“Football – a simple game really, yet generally, in the game, we make the simple things seem harder. But it’s those simple things that get you to the top.”
“I started to realise I am not as strong as others, and I can’t muscle someone off the ball who is twice the size of me. So I have altered my game, playing on the half-turn, for example, and it’s made me a much better player.”
“More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.”
“Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.”
“How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and – perhaps most of all – its unpluggable ‘analysts.’”
“Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.”
“Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.”
“We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.”
“If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I’m not going to let leukemia affect me.”
“I try to get there three hours before the game, talk with the ushers and the security guards, the coaches and the fans.”
“Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.”
“Everyone’s style is different, but I have a lot of things in my game the people don’t know.”
“It’s a stereotype that black players are just really fast, but at the end of day I want to be skilled, I want to be technical, I want to have vision and that’s what I’ve always tried to promote in my game: not relying on one thing but just being able to outwork players in so many different ways.”
“I like to be on the pitch, I like to perform and impact the game.”
“Folks, this is perfect weather for today’s game. Not a breath of air.”
“I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I’d get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o’clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.”
“Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called ‘Wizardry’; that was the game that hooked me forever.”
“Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I’m scared to death.”
“The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I’m gone.”
“The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.”
“’Reckoning’ will be the first game of its kind. They’ve taken that ‘God of War’-style combat and placed it in a truly open world with hundreds of hours of gameplay. You can do whatever it is you want to do. What path you take, what role you choose, what trail you blaze – there’s meaning and depth and substance in the world.”
“Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.”
“A pitcher’s got to be good and he’s got to be lucky to get a no hit game.”
“As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.”
“When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn’t make you protester – that just makes you a whiner.”
“If I go to a baseball game, I hear ‘Shoeless Joe,’ but otherwise, I hear ‘toe pick’ five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that’ll be on my gravestone.”
“Any time I get to work a home game, it’s awesome.”
“I think it’s particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, ‘Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie’s not going to be about the intricacies of the game.’ I mean, you wouldn’t cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.”
“When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.”
“One of the trickiest things about ‘Game of Thrones’ is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.”
“You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. ‘Game of Thrones’ is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.”
“Everything in life is how you respond to it. If everything went perfect all the time – you never lost a game, you got to the championship every time, you always won, you always got the top recruit, you always made the A – you really wouldn’t truly appreciate all that goes into it.”
“I like different actors for different reasons. There are people like Tom Cruise, who have continued to stay on top of their game, and Hugh Jackman, for being one of the hardest working people in Hollywood.”
“I don’t think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.”
“The game of football is something I dearly love, and there’s nothing else I’d rather be doing.”
“When someone tells me they’ve never been to a race, I tell them that the first one they should go to is Bristol, Tennesee. The shape of the track, the energy, and excitement under the lights is similar to what you might get at a stick-and-ball game in college football or the NFL.”
“Whether I’m hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.”
“For me it’s just amazing that I grew up watching Tim Duncan and KG and Kobe and Paul Pierce, Allen Iverson and all those guys and now it’s like, ‘Man, I can’t believe they actually got old.’ It’s like they actually walked away. It’s crazy to think about, but the game has to keep moving.”
“Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.”
“We not from Hollywood, so I’m not playing Hollywood’s game.”
“I don’t complain about other people’s game – I just create my own.”
“The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.”
“Russia has a long history of propaganda and trying to influence various nation’s cultures and elections. It’s happening. They seem to have stepped up their game.”
“I’d love to do something on ‘Mad Men.’ Or play Peter Dinklage’s cousin on ‘Game of Thrones.’ That would be fun.”
“It’s always fun to go home and play, but you gotta stay focused on the game.”
“There’s nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.”
“You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There’s no faking that kind of emotion. You can’t invent the feeling. It’s got to be natural, real.”
“I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.”
“I try to play my game and that’s being emotional because I’m that kind of guy.”
“Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.”
“Every game, we’re going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it’s not like, ‘You’ve really got to ratchet it up. You’ve really got to do something different.’ Then what have I been doing the whole time?”
“When you have too much scheme, sometimes it’s hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.”
“Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.”
“I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.”
“At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.”
“I don’t second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we’ve got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.”
“Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn’t open. You have to live with that. It’s an occupational hazard.”
“But it’s not just a game of finding literary references.”
“There’s always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we’d probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that’s almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.”
“I used to review games on ‘The Totally Rad Show,’ and the best thing about that was I would finish games. Now, it’s become challenging for me to actually sit through an entire game. I tend to get excited about the next shiny thing.”
“It’s easy to talk a good game in an echo chamber, it’s easy to witness to people who think exactly the same way you do, but to test your convictions by going outside your comfort zone is where the ideological battle needs to go.”
“The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.”
“I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I’m a guy that has love of the game.”
“I’m a huge fan of Michael Jordan, and I love the game of basketball.”
“I like attacking football, but that’s not the only thing the game’s about.”
“When I signed for Barca, I knew their playing style was suited to my game.”
“When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We’d play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He’d read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.”
“Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the ‘Thomas Crown Affair’. It’s, it’s, I don’t know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It’s the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it’s not.”
“I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don’t quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it’s valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won’t do.”
“What people don’t think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows wonderful fruits, vegetables, seafood, game, and fowl just outside of Manhattan.”
“I have to own the fact that I’m a black man – that’s why I did ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Widows’ because if I play the industry game, I lose.”
“It’s rare to find these true coin flip situations in Hold’em but surprisingly common in Omaha. That’s one of the reasons why Omaha is the perfect game for action junkies who relish the notion of flipping coins for large sums of money.”
“Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it’s a math-based game, much like backgammon is.”
“The most obvious difference between a cash game and a tournament is that in tournament play, once your chips are gone, so are you. In a cash game, you can always dig into your pocket for more money.”
“Tournament play demands patience to survive and win. Winning at cash games demands a whole other level of thought and deception. You need to reach into your bag of tricks and run the occasional big bluff to be a consistent cash game winner.”
“I am most challenged by playing cash games against the world’s top players. These games force me to think several moves in advance, like in a game of chess. And though I also find tournaments fun to play, they just don’t provide the constant brain buzz that cash game players crave.”
“Playing deep-stack, no-limit hold’em is a very complex game where the most critical and difficult decisions come after the flop.”
“Obsessing about statistics won’t make you a better poker player. In fact, you’ll end up wasting too much valuable time on that stuff when you should be concentrating on crucial issues, like getting a read on your opponents and studying the psychological aspects of the game.”
“There’s no doubt that position is a very important aspect of the game. But some players take this concept to the extreme and consequently miss opportunities when they refuse to play hands out of position.”
“If you are in a poker game for money and are taking it easy on one of your buddies, you are cheating yourself, your friend, and every other player in the game.”
“Soft playing destroys the integrity of the game of poker, and it’s wrong – flat out wrong.”
“Beating a tight game requires focus. You’ll need to seek out every opportunity where you can steal a big pot. One way is by representing a hand that your opponents probably can’t beat.”
“Playing Limit Hold’em will certainly improve your No Limit game. There are subtleties to the Limit game that will enhance your technique at the No Limit tables. Mastering these uniquely aggressive Limit tactics will enable you to steal more pots when you sit down to play No Limit Hold’em.”
“Whatever game suits you best, learn to play both Limit and No Limit Texas Hold’em. Your overall game will definitely improve.”
“Limit Hold’em is the game for you if you bore easily and crave fast action. Conversely, in No Limit, the game will often slow to a halt when someone is faced with a big decision. That’s uncommon in Limit games because all-in bets are rare.”
“I’m terrible at golf, but I love the game with a passion.”
“Some golf instructors get overly technical and teach the mechanics of the ideal swing. That approach didn’t work for me. So, I found a pro that didn’t insist that I learn Tiger’s swing. He accepted my physical limitations and improved my game by focusing on the minimal golf skills that I have.”
“Table talk is a part of the game, and frankly, it’s the part of the game that I enjoy most.”
“If you want to make money playing poker, find a game with a few suckers, fish, donkeys, live ones, or whatever you choose to call a bad player. Just don’t let that sucker be you.”
“I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can’t keep up.”
“I’ve always believed that the fundamental, driving strategic ethos of the Republican House leadership has been, ‘What do we do to get through the next caucus or conference without getting yelled at?’ We should never assume they have a long game.”
“Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.”
“My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn’t even win that game.”
“For me, personally, I think the serious gamers – the guys who know the levels – play Xbox, and people who are just good at the game play PS3. I play PS3 because I’m not a serious, serious gamer like that. But when I play the Xbox, the standard is so much higher.”
“It’s good to have a game like ‘Call Of Duty’ because it’s really competitive, and everybody wants to be the best at it.”
“I watch the goals to get me in the mood and to give myself a vision of how I want the game to go.”
“I watch all my goals before every game on the coach.”
“I have total faith in my abilities, total faith in what I can do on the pitch, and I just have to focus on that, on my game, and help the team be successful, and I have no worries.”
“Well, I like to – the game of serve and volley, but it’s very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it’s really tough to get there with those players.”
“That’s what I’ve been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy’s serve, ’cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that.”
“I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he’s, you know, one of the best doubles players that’s been around ever.”
“So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director’s impulses.”
“As an actor, it’s hard to direct because, suddenly, you’re not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you’ve really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.”
“You cannot have players come on and not make the impact because the game will slowly slip away from you. It is important you are ready.”
“I want to start every game but you have to respect the staff.”
“I base my game on work-rate and determination, that’s what has helped me work up the leagues in previous years.”
“I learned a lot under Jurgen Klopp, even when I wasn’t playing I was training with the lads every day and my game was still developing. I understood every decision he made and as a player you have got to respect that.”
“I go into every game like I’m playing at school!”
“I prefer to play as a striker, but I will do my best and try to win the game for my team as long as I am on the pitch.”
“You can’t be looking into the past too much about what you could have done; it is about making things right and learning from that experience and taking it into the next game.”
“Being at United, you always get quite disappointed if you don’t get all three points, as you believe you can go into every single game and win it.”
“I’ve played in a few Champions League matches and got into quarter-finals – sometimes unluckily knocked out – but you have to prepare like any other football match: you have to play the game, not the occasion. That’s been instilled in me since I was a kid.”
“The average age of a gamer is 33 years old, not eight years old, and in fact, if we look at the projected demographics of video game play, the video game players of tomorrow are older adults.”
“Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the difference.”
“In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or ‘templates,’ of the world. The better the template, the better the performance. And now we know playing action video game actually fosters better templates.”
“Taking big risks combined with having a team you believe in and that believes just as much in you as a leader make for long-term wins, even in a game of inches.”
“The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was – in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.”
“Arnold Palmer is my favorite, just getting to know him and all of the film on him and his game. He was the first real superstar in golf. You had Bobby Jones and all of those guys, but Arnold Palmer was bigger than life.”
“The thing that really gets me about the game is I’ve never played two rounds that were anywhere close to being the same – ever. Even with the same golf course and setup, nothing is ever the same. I love that about golf.”
“If my music career was my golf game, I’d be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.”
“Unfortunately, I’m not 185 and 6-3 and can run and catch fade routes all game. I do the dirty work. I’m all good. I’m thankful for it. Somebody’s got to do it.”
“When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out – and it’s been sold out ever since.”
“You never lose a game if the opponent doesn’t score.”
“I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.”
“Cable’s on fire. Traditional broadcast TV’s hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like ‘Homeland,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Veep.’ Now reinvention’s important.”
“The cool thing about ‘Spy Kids 3D: Game Over’ was that Robert Rodriguez brought back 3D. I feel like he did with that film. Now, every film is 3D.”
“After ‘Brothers & Sisters’ ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and figuring out what I wanted to do.”
“I liked watching myself on TV. My first job was hosting the ‘Roommate Game’.”
“My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.”
“I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington.”
“I’ve been lucky enough to, for the most part, surround myself with a lot of people who are more talented than me and who I can learn from, and it makes me up my game.”
“I think readers are always patient. Look at the ‘Harry Potter’ series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.”
“My mother was an economics professor. I’m proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.”
“When I mention that I’m a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, ‘Ah, that’s what we like about your script. The videogame feel.’”
“Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for ‘Game of Thrones’ until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.”
“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.”
“I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.”
“Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don’t see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.”
“There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn’t in the cards. I didn’t know what it was going to take to get here.”
“All though I didn’t meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.”
“People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn’t like that.”
“Some people get a Broadway show, and that’s their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life.”
“Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous – borderline maniacal – amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.”
“I’ve been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.”
“I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.”
“I’ve seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who’ve been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.”
“Soccer is a magical game.”
“Two of my boys are Manchester United fans; one is an Arsenal fan. Whenever there is a game I can take the boys to, I love taking them.”
“Football’s the biggest game in the world. America’s the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn’t I be excited about that?”
“I don’t know whether it’s the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.”
“Fiction novels, that’s my game.”
“I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.”
“’Game Of Thrones’ was too big a canvas for a movie, but ‘Dirty White Boys’ is like a great old Western: there’s so much compression, and it’s so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.”
“The reality is, ‘Game of Thrones’ has been a successful show for HBO, which has put us in a position to come and pitch another show and get them excited about it. And that’s what helped get us here.”
“My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.”
“Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy… in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.”
“Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.”
“Playing with light is something that is very important, especially when you want cinematography in your game.”
“Game Over is a very frustrating game convention. In short, it means, ‘If you were not good enough or did not play the game the way the designer intended you to play, you should play again until you do it right.’ What kind of story could a writer tell where the characters could play the same scene ten times until the outcome is right?”
“I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.”
“’Heavy Rain’ was my baby, my reason to live, and my oxygen for four years. And seeing the successful release of the game has been the most extraordinary reward I could have dreamt of, after years of working in the dark.”
“Some media used to talk about video games only to say how violent or addictive they could be. With ‘Heavy Rain,’ they talked about the story of the game and the emotions they felt while playing.”
“QTE is a very strange thing… it really depends on what you expect from your game experience.”
“I try to get better at what I’m doing, game after game.”
“I don’t differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with storytelling in games is that people tend to separate story and interactivity. Both should be conceived as one entity, each using the other.”
“Some people are shocked when a game evokes real-world issues. But this platform is about becoming the characters, not just seeing them from the outside, like in a film.”
“I disagree that injecting emotion into a game comes at the expense of the playing experience.”
“I personally believe that more and more players think that 10 hours is the right kind of play time for a game.”
“There are different games for different people and different expectations. Sometimes you want a great story, and sometimes you don’t. I don’t believe we should have stories in every single game. Sometimes it doesn’t matter.”
“Getting the player emotionally involved is the holy grail. We try to make players forget they’re playing a game. We want them to live the experience and suspend disbelief.”
“I’ve always felt that ‘game over’ is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.”
“With ‘Heavy Rain,’ we’re creating something that changes many traditional game paradigms.”
“Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that’s why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.”
“I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can’t simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.”
“We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn’t really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.”
“I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I’m out there. No clock – nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.”
“I can’t remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.”
“With the Chiefs, you can’t live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven’t had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I’m told, I don’t really need to.”
“Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.”
“Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.”
“We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the ‘writing style’ of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.”
“One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.”
“The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren’t sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.”
“I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.”
“I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I’ve been sometimes compared to those other guys. We’re after different game.”
“If you are at United, you need a manager with a winning mentality. We had that with Ferguson. Mourinho has it. He wants to win every game.”
“I think football is evolving, and I think the role of the keeper is becoming more and more important in the game in general.”
“In training, the players would deliberately hit high balls into me and barge into me so I’d get used to that side of the English game. I actually enjoy the physical side of it now.”
“In the Under-21s, I played good football for several years, trying to play the same game as the best and with some very good players.”
“Creativity is a game changer. That’s true of society, in advertising and in life.”
“You put choice on the table, you change the whole game. Everything is about control. If an ad is interesting to you, you’ll have the conversation with the brand. If it’s not, it’s a waste of time.”
“Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don’t say ‘game’ in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.”
“What strikes me is that ‘XIII’ looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun – the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What’s also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line.”
“It’s a silly old game.”
“Maybe that’s some of the reason I feel so good today. Maybe I finally realised that it’s just a game.”
“We’re often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.”
“Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it’s a very similar skillset.”
“’Game of Thrones’ is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.”
“It was fun winning with the Nasty Nine, but it didn’t feel good going into every game with the Nasty Nine, I tell you that.”
“I know the game wasn’t a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.”
“I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.”
“So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.”
“He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.”
“Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country’s pastoral myth.”
“Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.”
“I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don’t think I’ll ever leave London.”
“If you’re not in the game, you can’t hit a home run.”
“In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you’re going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That’s the biggest advice I can give them.”
“I want to leave a legacy, but to do that, I need to be on my best game.”
“Putting is an art. When you’re not feeling confident on the greens, it will affect the rest of your game.”
“If, like me, you’ve never watched ‘Game of Thrones’, the podcast ‘Binge Mode: ‘Game of Thrones” ought to be unlistenable. It isn’t, thanks to the energy of the two expert presenters Mallory Rubin and Jason Concepcion, who have the wit to laugh at their own deep-dive devotion and are helped out by some smart editing.”
“Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.”
“I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible… but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.”
“If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world – where managers have ‘skin in the game,’ and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.”
“I’ve met a lot of military men in my time. After they retire, they are still extremely game. They dress perfectly and have impeccable manners. They always end up as secretaries of golf clubs. I have great admiration for them.”
“’Atomic Blonde’ is about the characters’ bigger existential crisis and their world. It’s not so much the conceit of the spy game; it’s more that being a spy sucks. But we’re going to make it fun to watch.”
“We don’t want John Wick to retire again; we’re glad he’s back in the game. We want a sequel or a prequel. There’s a lot of fertile ground to cover.”
“Every league game is like the World Cup. The passion… intense, the desire for points.”
“I changed my position when I was 16 or 17. I started in midfield or further forward as a number 10, and then in one tournament, we lost two defenders to injury in the same game, and we didn’t have any on the bench. So I played at the back, and the manager of the first team saw me, and he said, ‘I want this guy in the first team,’ and that was that!”
“I know what is important. When I go to the pitch, I cannot laugh; I respect the other players. I try my best and put my passion inside the game.”
“A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity – do you feel it’s real?”
“I like landscape, I guess. It’s kind of a game to see how you can describe it.”
“The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn’t a proper end game.”
“In this game, you’re on your own. You either sink or swim.”
“I hope I can fulfill all my ambitions at Everton. But you never know in this game.”
“The Merseyside derby is a terrific game full of passion, full of quality.”
“I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I’m ahead of the game. It’s hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn’t see coming, and you get enormous points.”
“I just come do what I’ve got to do, play my game. And I don’t worry if anybody likes it.”
“Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.”
“Cloud Gaming means that the game doesn’t need to be downloaded and run on your computer; it literally means the game runs out on the Internet, in the cloud, with the experience being streamed to the players.”
“A game is not won until it is lost.”
“I’ve enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.”
“Marc Gasol, he’s more of a true center. There are guys who play that traditional center role, but the game is also played differently now.”
“You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you’ve just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.”
“As the CG in motion capture made it look realistic, it put more of an onus on the game makers to make the dialogue they’re saying more realistic. It doesn’t matter what they say when they’re 8-bits, but if they look almost photo-real, it matters. More and more, the games industry is realising that.”
“I think there’s really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably ‘Tomb Raider.’ Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.”
“You have to decide what kind of story you’re going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like ‘Toy Story 3,’ which isn’t realistic at all, is really emotional and involving. It just depends. I played this game called ‘Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP’ for iPad that is totally old school 8-bit, which I found very moving.”
“I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it’s ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Justified.’”
“City came in strongly for me, put their cards on the table, and what I have found out since is that every game in England is a privilege – the atmosphere, the fans, the interest that surrounds it. Every time I go out on the pitch, I know I’ve made the right decision.”
“Even when you think you can’t learn much more about the game, you can and do, in fact, learn more by looking at things in a different light.”
“I ask myself in every game to be the one to take responsibility.”
“Football is a changeable game. From one day to another, everything could change.”
“Of course El Clasico is a great night, but I don’t have an overwhelming desire to play in that game.”
“The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.”
“I grew up in an age where women’s tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men’s game.”
“All I can say is you don’t know what’s going to be on the front page of tomorrow’s newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it’s about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.”
“Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That’s what they do; that’s their living, that’s their pride, that’s their joy. They don’t achieve that because they happen to be human.”
“I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there’s a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you’d think you were listening to completely different games.”
“Honestly, I am a fan of the game like anyone else, so my favorite players’ list is pretty big. But if we are to narrow it down to England, I have a lot of respect for Wayne Rooney and the things he has achieved for club and country.”
“There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn’t make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.”
“To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it’s unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.”
“I like the ball in a big game. I’m not afraid to take it.”
“I’m not even close to those guys, but I don’t think anyone loves the game more than me.”
“The game has changed. What’s going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.”
“Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball.”
“When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn’t have our Grace Jones – Grace Jones was before my time. We didn’t really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.”
“You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it’s like, game on.”
“Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero – a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.”
“The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience – the practices are equally important.”
“I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You’ve just got to keep on grinding.”
“It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don’t want to be left behind.”
“I’m exploring this world of game development and GPU and getting involved in any capacity that I can to meet talented artists and programmers and developers. That’s what you’re gonna need to get a high-end experience done.”
“I’m a video game enthusiast. I love video games! They were a huge part of my upbringing in their early form, when I was all about ‘Dig Dug’ and ‘River Raid.’ As they evolved, so did my music-making, and we just kind of grew up together like cool friends.”
“It’s all so surreal seeing yourself in a video game.”
“’The Outpost’ is an exciting fantasy with a strong female lead that will capture the imagination of fans of both ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Wonder Woman.’”
“Parents and kids know they should pass up the fries for an apple and exchange the video game for a game of tag – but knowing and doing are certainly different things.”
“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.”
“Basketball is a team game. But that doesn’t mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.”
“When you think you’re showing effort, and your body language is showing that, then you’re really playing your best, and then nobody will be able to talk bad about your game.”
“I wasn’t really a student of the game. I just played it because I loved it. I didn’t really look into the greats as much. They just put a ball in my hand, and I did what the coach told me to.”
“I still have my back to the basket because there’s going to be times where I’m going to really have to score down low, but I’m really working on my face-up game because in the league, there’s more space, and there’s not double-teams and triple-teams coming at you like how it was in college.”
“I didn’t want to go out there and prove to everyone or try to prove people wrong or what I can do. I just wanted to play my best, and, if I’m gassing at the end of the game, then that means I did a good job.”
“You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.”
“People in Wynne told me I’d never win a game at Memphis and I’d never play in a bowl game. But I knew we’d turn it around.”
“You can’t let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.”
“You go to a couple of teams, and some guys have never been to a playoff game.”
“So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn’t know anything and isn’t ready to be vice president. That’s fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.”
“Growing up, John Terry was my obvious idol. I based my whole game on him.”
“Coming to the game, my first time with England at Wembley, it’s a special moment.”
“You’re only out there for 90 minutes, and you have to give it everything you’ve got. It’s a game of football, at the end of the day.”
“It’s important to be vocal, and to be fair, I’ve always had that in me, to be honest. One of the things my dad has always said to me is make sure you’re vocal, and before the game, I always get a text off him telling me to do the things well and again, ‘Be vocal, Dec.’”
“I’m always composed, calm, and always believe in my own ability, and if I start well, then I end up having a good game, usually.”
“As I’m growing up, going into holding midfield, I’m watching Busquets quite a lot for Barcelona. The way he controls the game, his reading of it, technically, defensively – everything about him cuts him out above the rest. I’m really enjoying watching him.”
“For generations, Americans who aren’t rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots – want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.”
“Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn’t care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that’s what it took to win.”
“Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win.”
“Aggression is something that is a part of me, and I’m never going to take that out of my game.”
“It is no good being good in halves of games or in one game and not in the next one.”
“I like to enjoy the game and to have fun and express myself as much as I can.”
“It’s just about taking each game as it comes and hopefully being up there at the end of the season.”
“I know it is a cliche, but I am just going to focus on each game and try to do as well as I can.”
“Every game is different. Every opposition comes with a different threat.”
“Goals are a big part of my game. Maybe in my first few games at Tottenham, I didn’t show that – I wasn’t getting forward enough.”
“Every game is different, and there is no easy game at international level.”
“Your competitive juice, your love of the game, it’s in you. It’s hard to get out.”
“Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mindset and approach to the game, being in Toronto, was I wanted to change that whole narrative to that whole organization.”
“I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.”
“A lot of people in the NBA don’t even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.”
“At the end of the day, the only person to have a better Kobe sneaker game than me is Kobe himself.”
“I never force nothing in my game. I let everything come whenever it needed to come. That’s the beauty of it.”
“The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.”
“To me, comedy is a game.”
“’Super Contra’ was the game I fell in love with. I played and beat that game with my mom.”
“I would have to say fantasy RPG and MMOs are my favorite type of games. I love ‘Dark Souls II.’ That game is so hard and unforgiving; if you beat that game, you have true skills.”
“My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don’t think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.”
“In the head of the moment after losing a game, I lost the control of my emotions and hit the ball with an intention of hitting out of the court. Unfortunately and absolutely unintentionally I hit Mr. Arnaud Gabas, the chair umpire.”
“I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.”
“It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.”
“The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.”
“I can’t recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.”
“I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.”
“Somebody can say they don’t understand why somebody drifts. But I’ve always found people who drift interesting, ’cause it shows me the game’s not stagnant in their own head. They’re thinking.”
“I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.”
“I’ve got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.”
“I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.”
“I’m trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.”
“What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don’t mean to say that academic achievement isn’t important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.”
“I have kids. I can’t hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It’s too much. I don’t know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.”
“Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.”
“There’s never been any game plan or thread through my career. It’s just happened that I’ve ricocheted from one interesting character to another.”
“Any player that says they don’t want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It’s something everyone wants to be a part of.”
“You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we’re playing a game. It’s a business, it’s our job, but I don’t think you can do well unless you’re having fun.”
“I remember going from rookie ball to A, to double A, then to triple A. At every level it seemed like the game was faster. The bigger the situation, the more the game speeds up. That’s all mental. It messes people up.”
“I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I’m nervous for them.”
“Going into my second film as a director, it’s night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn’t matter what you know in your head and what you’ve been taught until you’re there and doing it; it’s a whole new ball game.”
“I actually don’t play any new video games except ‘Call of Duty.’ I’m addicted to ‘Call of Duty.’ It’s the only game I need.”
“I think my putting could be better, my short game.”
“I have got friends that I have got to know and found out that, the first few times I was with them, they were just thinking that everything I was doing was some kind of weird mind game, which is hysterical, really, because I couldn’t be any less like that.”
“I believe that I’m a special player. I think people love the way I just try to play. I don’t try to impress anyone when I’m playing or anything. I just have a feel for the game.”
“It is very important to me to maintain a consistent workout regimen during the season. The Bulls staff does a great job with providing me with a weekly workout, and these kept me energized throughout my rookie season. In the off season, I try to increase my strength and add new dimensions to my game.”
“I watched Tim Tebow and how he played and how he carried himself and the good that he did for the game on and off the field. I knew that’s what I wanted to do.”
“I’ve dealt with adversity before, had injuries before. I didn’t let that slow me down. It just changed my attitude about the game.”
“Whenever you’re falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that’s part of the game; that’s part of football.”
“There’s only so much that you can control, especially when the game speed is super, super fast, and guys are flying at you, and you’re trying to make a play and get rid of the ball.”
“It’s good to be able to run and have a balanced offense. They’ve got to be worried about both things. They can’t just focus on the run game or the passing game and have us locked down that way. So when you have balance, good things are going to happen on offense.”
“It’s just something I always dreamed about when I was little. I always thinking about playing in an All-American game, and the Under Armour All-America Game was the one game I always wanted to play in, so once I got the opportunity and invite, I chose it.”
“I don’t go into a game thinking I’m going to run more than I’m going to pass. So it just depends on what the defense is going to bring in the situation of the game and what happens that play.”
“I just play in the moment, play in the game one game at a time.”
“I really don’t care what people think about my game as long as I’m getting the Ws.”
“I have to stay in my lane and focus on what I have to do and listen to what the coaches are telling me to do. They’re going to make sure I’m prepared on game day.”
“My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you’d be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they’d have you put in the loony bin.”
“It’s not ideal for me to miss any time. I love the game. I want to be out there. I can’t stand sitting the back watching games. I want to be out there fighting with my team.”
“People can say what they want, but at the end of the day, I’m going to keep working on my game. I always know I have things to work on.”
“I didn’t understand going to practice two hours early, going hard in practice, and then staying an extra hour after that. But once I started doing it, my game didn’t feel right if I didn’t do it.”
“My dad always taught me the fundamentals of the game: dribble, pass, shoot. So I never relied heavily on any one thing until I got to college, when I was just adjusting to the team.”
“I’m not the strongest, I’m not the fastest, I can’t jump the highest, so for me, it’s doing it in other ways: changing paces, using your body to get open, knowing your defender. A lot goes into it. You have to study the game.”
“That’s something I pride myself on, playing every single game.”
“There’s no nights off in the NBA. That’s what makes it so special. That’s why everyone loves the game.”
“It’s hard because, throughout your whole career, you’re known as the top player, the best on your team, you’re playing the most minutes, and then you might not get in the game. You don’t know when you’re going to get in the game.”
“I think people are always nervous for your first game.”
“I’ve got to get my cardio up. I’m usually known as the fitness guy on the Stanford team, but not 70 to 80 plays a game, so I’ve definitely got to step that up. But I’m all about it.”
“With TV, it’s the same way as preparing for the game of football. To get better at football, you have to watch the film and watch those who came before you and played the game, and yes, the first year you come in as a rookie and you’re not gonna be as good as when you come in as a vet, and I applied that in the same way to ‘Ton of Cash.’”
“Conservation of any endangered species must begin with stringent efforts to protect its natural habitat by the enforcement of rigid legislation against human encroachment into parks and other game sanctuaries.”
“Reading ‘The Last Days of Magic’ is like playing a well-constructed video game.”
“Endurance is not a young person’s game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that’s almost as strong, but you have a much better mind.”
“To all the younglings I come across in ‘Game of Thrones’ who suddenly find themselves well known, I say the theatre is your best friend – they will remember you.”
“’Game of Thrones’ is wonderful. My theory is they employ all these British actors because, one, they are like me and grateful. Two, we turn up, and we know our lines. Three, we don’t demand a 60 ft. Winnebago and PA, and four, largely we are very uncomplaining.”
“I’m really grateful for ‘Game of Thrones’. It’s something wonderful to happen to an actress of my age, and Dubrovnik is astonishingly beautiful.”
“I’m an old bag for the most part on ‘Game Of Thrones’, so it’s so lovely to be glamorous – as glamorous as you can be at my age!”
“I don’t have a game plan. I never did, and it’s too late to have one even if I wanted to.”
“I will say that Vertigo is an area of great interest to me. It is even less well tapped than other parts of DC, and could potentially offer amazing stories for our future television video game, digital and consumer products businesses.”
“When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.”
“I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important – like a league game or something.”
“I’m not so mean. I wouldn’t ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.”
“You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.”
“I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.”
“Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.”
“I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.”
“I got fired – November 8, 1979. And all of a sudden, I got a call, two weeks later, about doing a game on ESPN. And I truly said – Scotty Connal, the head of ESPN production at the time, was the guy that called me – I said, ‘Man, ESPN sounds like a disease. What is ESPN? I know nothing about it, never heard of it.’”
“TV critics came after me for overhyping LeBron. A lot of people don’t know this, but I didn’t want to do the game. I told ESPN, ‘We’re making this kid into something special.’ I always follow orders, whatever my people want me to do.”
“I told them that I cannot lie when a writer asks me what’s my feeling not doing the game. I said I have to be honest. And my honest reply to you is, obviously, I’m a loyal team player. I will go where my bosses tell me to go.”
“I’m a basketball guy. No sitcom guy. I don’t care about all that jazz. I care about basketball. It’s not me. And I stayed with what I did, and I’m very proud that I did that because I make a great living and I’m lucky and I get to be involved with the thing I truly love, and that’s the game of basketball.”
“I still love the game. I still feel like I’m a 25-year-old. I really still love the game and feel as enthusiastic about the game as I ever have felt about it.”
“I played a lot of the original ‘Fight Night.’ I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.”
“I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.”
“When a game comes around, that’s the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.”
“When we go to the pitch, that’s all we want to do – we want to win – and when the game finishes, if you win, you go home happy.”
“You always have to know that you are going to leave everything on the pitch, every drop of sweat, to help the team win the game.”
“If I go on to the pitch, do things well and the fans love me and my team-mates, too, we take on that energy which can change a game.”
“I don’t pick tournaments to score or rivals or other teams to score against. I’m a striker: every game I play, I want to score.”
“I don’t go into a game with specific targets. I don’t pinpoint an opposing player before a match, trying to exploit a kind of weakness.”
“Football is a really simple game, and the most important thing, in any formation, is that the players do their jobs, not the formation which they play in.”
“Systems, coaches, and directors or club presidents do not win games – players do, they are the only people who can make a significant difference once that game starts.”
“I like every game to matter, to feel like we must win.”
“When I see some of the pitches which my father played on, I think that it must have been a different game.”
“I have played international games two days after travelling around the world. Your body clock is all over the place, and you are waking up at 4 AM. But once a game starts, then your adrenalin kicks in, and you seem to forget the tiredness.”
“I will give 100 per cent and play with my life in every game. That’s one of my main features as a player.”
“When Ralf Rangnick was in charge, you could see he was out to force a pressing game.”
“My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We’re building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.”
“The NBA is becoming a global game.”
“I’m in this game to give the fans proper fights, fights they will remember.”
“Nobody wants to play bad football in a game; everybody wants to win, and every player wants to show how good he is. But, you know, sometimes you simply have a game where nothing is happening.”
“Ronaldo is brilliant, Messi more my kind of player. He sees the game so clearly. He can score, create; he’s the complete player – the best ever, probably.”
“Sometimes self-esteem affects you on and off the pitch. Until you face your next game and you miss an easy chance, for example, then you feel not as great.”
“I just want to entertain and make people enjoy the game and smile.”
“Football is a simple game. It is not difficult to play football: just pass the ball around.”
“I cannot speak for other players, but it is always good when the manager comes to ask how you’re feeling and makes you feel calm before you play the game.”
“Football is a simple game.”
“I try to do different things, beautiful things, to play the game the way I see it, and I think I’m doing it pretty well.”
“I just want to play every game, and when I do this, and I’m healthy with no injuries, then the fans can see the way I play.”
“I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.”
“Actors used to concentrate on acting, but today they are businessmen, too, and think about the numbers game as well. They multi-task very well. It’s admirable that they have this ability.”
“I’m a person who sometimes tends to worry too much about cricket. Previously I would think about the game for probably 15 hours, but now with the presence of my wife it has come down to ten hours, and I would like to bring that down to about nine.”
“A finisher doesn’t always mean you have to take the game deep and then bash to finish. It is all about understanding situations and then adjusting your game with the aim that you have to get the job done.”
“The more you back yourself, the more consistent you become in finishing the game.”
“It’s easier to debut in a game than make a comeback, because in the latter, people know you and expect something from you. When you’re playing your first match, they’re just excited and don’t know what you’re capable of.”
“Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.”
“My whole first season was surreal. My first game was against Detlef Schrempf. There was German media everywhere. It was probably my worst NBA game. It was all a blur.”
“Most of my game is not really based on explosiveness, but I’ve gotta have a little lift on my jumper.”
“When you’re older and get more experience, the game slows down for you. I know exactly what spot to get to where I can always get my shot off no matter who’s guarding me.”
“You can improve in every stage of your career, and even in training, after training, analysing your game, you can do a lot of stuff to make steps, and that’s also a major point of becoming a top player.”
“Many times after a game, I get the feeling that I have not done enough, I should have done better, of course there is room for improvement.”
“I just try to play my game, whatever role it is.”
“I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ’cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.”
“When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who’s chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?”
“I want to change the game and break through the nonsense without any Establishment help.”
“You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.”
“Against Novak, it’s really tough for me to play, I mean, because he doesn’t give me any time. I don’t really like to play against him because he has a game style which doesn’t fit me at all.”
“Everybody’s got a puncher’s chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you’re different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.”
“I only dunked maybe twice a game on average.”
“People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.”
“The idea of windows, that’s so symbolic to me within labor. And I’m always opening windows during a birth. If someone’s been in labor all night and they’re exhausted and sort of over it, opening a window or drawing a curtain can change the game. And sometimes the doula is the first one to suggest it.”
“It’s what you’ve been a part of for so long. I don’t think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.”
“I have never seen a game’s graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.”
“There’s about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it’s all about the game play.”
“But I’ve been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That’s a lot of people.”
“Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that’s it.”
“I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it’s over.”
“Sometimes a week might go by when I don’t think about that game, but I don’t remember when it happened last.”
“In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it’s frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch ‘The Price is Right,’ I’ll watch ‘The Price is Right.’”
“I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.”
“I’d like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can’t.”
“I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while, I realized I’d always stink. And that’s when I really started to enjoy the game.”
“Because, they’re only thinking about one team when that game’s over. Before the game, they’re talking about two football teams. When the game’s over, there’s only one winner.”
“And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.”
“The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters.”
“It’s not how you play the game, it’s how you place the blame.”
“Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it’s hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world’s most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.”
“Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.”
“This is an opportunity to walk away from the game knowing that I’ve given it all that I can.”
“I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it’s game time, it’s game on.”
“I think politics is a dirty game. We’ve seen the sides that they take; we’ve seen the commentary they have had on my father.”
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
“A lot of guys kind of get complacent with how they do in one game, but I just want to compete. So every game I play in, it’s a brand new beginning for me.”
“I just go out there and play my game and let the chips fall where they may.”
“My mother and father met while playing chess, so I’ve always had a fondness for the game. If it weren’t for chess, I might not be here.”
“You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that’s partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves – the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.”
“I play football because I love the game and I put everything into it.”
“I appreciate the fans who come out here, and they support us, but it’s football. We’re not saving lives. We’re not police officers. We’re not doctors. We’re football players, first and foremost. If you want to stop watching the game because a guy feels strongly about a very serious topic that’s going on in our society, then that’s your choice.”
“It’s not going to matter, but there’s a part of me, a human part of me, that wants to be 60 years old, watching a Seahawks game, and they’re talking about the days back when I was playing. I want to be able to feel that. I want to know what that feels like.”
“The reason why I play ‘Madden’ is because in ‘Madden,’ I can control everything, and in the game of life and the game of football, you can’t. It’s kind of like an outlet.”
“I’ve heard all my life how I’m too short or not big enough to play this game. It’s nothing new.”
“I’ve just stopped worrying about what the game plan looks like, how many targets am I going to have in a game, all of the stuff that would distract me when having fun out there on the football field. It’s allowed me to be less stressed and enjoy my teammates more and go out there with a loose mentality and have more fun.”
“I’m on the record as saying Andrew Luck can be the greatest quarterback who ever played the game of football. I’ve seen him do some unbelievable things that I still can’t believe a quarterback was able to do. I have tremendous respect for that guy.”
“A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that’s my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.”
“For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.”
“Let’s learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.”
“My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it’s become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That’s what it’s turned into. If you’re not undefeated, you’re out of the running.”
“I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don’t miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I’m not the diehard fan anymore.”
“Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It’s just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.”
“Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don’t believe good umpires ever should.”
“I’ve heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and dedicated people whose primary interest is to make sure the game is played fairly. We are the integrity of the game.”
“The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.”
“Instant replay ought to be thrown out. Period. It’s a game of imperfections. Why is that so bad for the game? Really, I think they are trying to make the game perfect. I’ll tell you what: It will never, ever be perfect.”
“The part of the game that fans will soon miss: the argument between manager and umpire! There was something special about watching a manger and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting ‘nose-to-nose’ was part of my job description.”
“I’ll say it again: you’ve got to put the argument back in the game. They’re trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They’re ruining baseball.”
“What I really found was that the one similarity between ‘Covert Affairs’ and ‘Fair Game’ is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.”
“The more real I got on ‘The Bourne Identity,’ the more interesting it got. So ‘Fair Game’ was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the ‘Bourne’ franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist.”
“I have a traditional view of the afterlife… heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it’s on purpose. We aren’t supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.”
“The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.”
“Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody’s goal to actually make a funny game.”
“When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don’t address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game’s first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game.”
“Years and years ago, I did a game based on ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.”
“Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.”
“The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.”
“If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.”
“Think ‘Game of Thrones.’ In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn’t really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it’s structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.”
“Once a teen has been identified as part of the ‘target market,’ he knows he’s done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one’s own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.”
“If you’re not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn’t get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.”
“When I’m playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley’s Game I want to be in the moment when he’s feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.”
“Ninety percent of the hands aren’t shown in a poker game.”
“I just go out and play my game. Just making sure I keep doing those little things, like playing with toughness, that’s just me.”
“I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.”
“I can’t worry about techs. I’ve got to play my game.”
“A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It’s just the nature of the game. It doesn’t bother me.”
“I’m blessed. I get to play the game I love for a living and make a lot of money doing it.”
“After a game, I really just relax with the family.”
“I’m not as athletic as some guys, so I have to counter that with a tremendous brain that thinks the game.”
“I see the game differently than some guys. I’m always reading the next move.”
“I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.”
“It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.”
“That’s the only reason I’m here. I don’t need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.”
“Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons – the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.”
“The game against the Vikings back in my second year stands out. It was kind of a turnaround for us. It allowed us to make a run at the playoffs for the first time in quite a while. The memories are so many it’s hard to pin one down.”
“Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what’s been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.”
“Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that’s disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don’t want to see that happen.”
“When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you’d get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place.”
“I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it’s been a lot of fun.”
“The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.”
“There’s a game called Checkout where there’s grocery items and it’s how much you think the manufacturer’s suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don’t think I could ever win that game.”
“After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.”
“You don’t notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.”
“I think the thing I took most from game playing was just getting in the characters head. I took it really seriously. There’s something about creating your character.”
“When you don’t have one that you throw for strikes – they are good hitters – they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one’s not working, I’ve got three others. It makes the game totally different.”
“The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.”
“After the first time I got traded – I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded – that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time – it’s just part of it.”
“Seven innings, three starts in a row, that’s an improvement for me, and that’s what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.”
“Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, ‘Sit down, you’re done.’ Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.”
“My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.”
“You always want to make sure that you’re not the weak link. You’re surrounded by really talented, great actors and singers, so just staying on your game is the main thing.”
“My only feeling about superstition is that it’s unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.”
“In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the ‘Psych’ off-season, I’m game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.”
“That’s what I wanted to do… I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.”
“Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, ‘What story do you have to tell?’”
“I was a ‘Warcraft’ player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, ‘That is a player. That is the game.’ So I’ve had their support from the very beginning.”
“The feeling that makes ‘Warcraft’ work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.”
“In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it’s like to play the game, and that’s absolutely not the case.”
“Whether you are fighting for the title or fighting at the bottom, you are always professional and want to win every game.”
“When you fight for the game, fight to win and then get the goal in the latter minutes, especially at Old Trafford, it’s a wonderful, amazing feeling.”
“Every game you play, you try to win.”
“I try to score in every game, and I don’t feel sorry for anybody.”
“It is always a tough game when you play against Arsenal; they have good players, and it doesn’t matter what kind of moment they are in.”
“In Serbia, it is amazing pressure. When we lose a game, it is like somebody dies. It is really horrible.”
“You still just got to play your game. No matter where you’re at, you’ve got to play your game, especially in majors. When you try to push and try to make things happen, that’s when you can make some big numbers at the majors.”
“I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don’t do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That’s how the game should be played.”
“I think every part of your game, on this golf course, needs to be good. You’ve got to hit every club in the bag. You need to drive it well, hit your irons well, and always, if you want to have a chance to win a Major, then you’ve got to putt it well.”
“Having three tough finishing holes in a major, you know, you know that, most likely, it’s going to come down to those last three holes. Having a good game plan, a good strategy, and executing obviously is going to be the big key.”
“It’s just a game. I love it. And yeah, I get frustrated, but I try to not let it get me too upset. I mean, I don’t get upset over bad shots or anything like that.”
“I love the game of baseball.”
“What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.”
“I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.”
“I’m game for anything fun.”
“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.”
“Whenever there is a big game and people don’t think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.”
“I’m on a team with LeBron James and Chris Bosh, and they both dress well. It gets competitive. If I don’t bring my A game, they’re going to outshine me.”
“I’ve played for the Miami Heat my whole career under Pat Riley. Mr. GQ himself. So when I pick out my outfits before a game, I’m already feeling confident. And some of that swagger stays with me when I take the court.”
“Over my career, I’ve had to adjust my game.”
“I’ve decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.”
“The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.”
“For home games, I bring my clothes to the arena. I bring two different outfits that I can pick after the game. Road game, I got to wear what I walk in with.”
“As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you’re supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.”
“I studied video game design. The one thing I knew for sure about myself is I didn’t want to study acting.”
“If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.”
“Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.”
“While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.”
“I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn’t do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.”
“Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.”
“When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it’s being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.”
“The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.”
“You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.”
“This ain’t a football game, we do this every day.”
“No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.”
“The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won’t hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.”
“In baseball, you can’t kill the clock. You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why this is the greatest game.”
“Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.”
“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.”
“I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that’s going to take me a year.”
“I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.”
“My plan was to stay with ‘Game of Thrones’ for the long haul. That was always my plan. I would have loved to.”
“When it’s finished, I’ll get the box set, and I’ll have a ‘Game of Thrones’ month, and that’ll be fantastic. That’ll be really exciting.”
“I have a very good ground game and very good wrestling. People just underestimate it. That’s it. I want to keep it like that.”
“If I have the TV on, it’s either a Mets game or ‘SportsCenter.’”
“Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.”
“I’m proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.”
“Baseball is a team game.”
“The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.”
“The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides – I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it’s on? Why can’t I just say, ‘I want to watch Duke basketball.’ Or, even better, why doesn’t the system know that?”
“I played without fear. I’ve done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it’s been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.”
“The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.”
“When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.”
“We are professionals. We know when we’re playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.”
“I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we’re having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there’s a foul, and that’s a chance to score a goal.”
“I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that’s difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are – that’s what the rules of the game are for.”
“When the game is finished, it’s completely finished. I’m with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, ‘Oh, did you see the game?’ and I say, ‘No, I didn’t see the game’. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.”
“I love to set up my teammates. I am not here to be a star, to show off. I am here to play for the others, but if I have to try and clinch a game, then I will.”
“I’m not saying I like to be kicked, but it’s good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.”
“Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.”
“I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don’t need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.”
“We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.”
“Messi is just an anomaly: he can dribble, he can score, he can pass, he has the vision, he understands the game.”
“When you play eleven a side, you might go through a game with very few touches, but with street football, you’re always involved in the game, so it is a great way to improve your skill and to learn how to create and use space, as the pitch is very small.”
“Asian players are very eager to work hard, but they don’t have the physicality of the Europeans, so they might actually need to work twice as hard. With street football, their skills will improve a lot, and so will their tactical awareness, because by playing within a limited space, you need to be very focused on your game.”
“I can’t even remember playing a game without pain.”
“Even though you’re irritated or disappointed about a game, never lose your human side.”
“This game is about engagement and respect, whether you’re playing in the Champions League or in the fourth division.”
“We started a new movement called street soccer, so I was already breathing and living the style. Since street soccer is not a game but a lifestyle, it required a matching wardrobe.”
“When big teams play each other, you automatically want to raise your game. You want to see what level you’re at, and you know you have to step up.”
“I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you’ve just Xeroxed something twice. I think that’s where a lot of the criticism comes from – there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.”
“I find just in terms of free time I’m always envious of people I know who… listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I’ve got Sophie’s Choice, I’ll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.”
“I can adapt my game to anyone, whether it’s Ric Flair, Chris Benoit, or Batista.”
“I am not a video game guy at all. Once it got past Super Mario Bros. and past two buttons, they lost me. I was like, ‘I do not have the abilities to be able to do this. It doesn’t work.’”
“Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.”
“Of course we all dream about doing big, playing for big clubs, but I wanted to play football because of the love for the game.”
“If you do not play well, it is normal that they criticise you. But criticism is part of the game, so you accept it.”
“I try to do my best in every game to help the team.”
“I came here to win titles with Roma. I can only promise one thing, and that is that I will give my best for this club in every game.”
“Since I left, I follow every City game in every competition, and it’s just natural for me because I feel it is still my club, even if I’m not there anymore.”
“It is the entire team that has to work together. Football is a team game. We all have to give our all.”
“My style of game is a bit of a mix between a modern player and a traditional striker, more aggressive. The real, ultimate finisher.”
“I think Falcao is one of the best strikers because of the way he plays, more than simply being a player with a lot of class, to define a game, a style of play. He’s proven that he’s a player who works hard; he’s very strong both tactically and technically.”
“There is nothing nicer than playing in a World Cup against France, England, or Spain. There is nothing nicer than instead of playing a friendly, you can play a game where, if you win, you can make history.”
“I didn’t want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.”
“I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.”
“Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.”
“The money is nice, but I am not in this game for the money.”
“I can’t just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she’s from. It’s almost like playing a child’s game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me.”
“I realise I am stepping into the shoes of a hugely respected editor in the shape of Alexandra Shulman, someone who has chosen to leave at the top of their game with a legacy of 25 years of success.”
“In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through – if it is labored, it fails.”
“Every flaw you have or lapse of concentration can cost you a goal, so you have to be on your toes every minute of the game.”
“Nothing can replicate the thrill of making a great save at an away ground, or hearing your own fans cheering you, or the atmosphere when you score a goal or win a big game.”
“You don’t need only your strikers. You need your defenders to be on top of their game. You need a midfield to work hard and track back, and I suppose you need a goalkeeper who makes saves once in a while.”
“When you see Sir Alex arguing with referees and linesmen, he is showing passion that has taken him to the very highest level of the game.”
“It doesn’t matter whether it is your first game or your last game: you want to win.”
“Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally different ball game.”
“I’m an actress that’s game for anything. I would love to do a movie like ‘Winter’s Bone.’”
“My videogame mind died after they stopped making wonderful escape worlds – every game just turned into me training to be in the army. But I used to love the Oddworld and ‘Abe’s Exoddus’ and ‘Abe’s Oddysee’ for Playstation.”
“But you know, I’m not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person’s game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.”
“Most people watch a game because they’re excited about it; I’ll sit there and watch lacrosse championships to try to find a female who could be a bobsledder.”
“I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it’s during a basketball game, because then I’ll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?”
“The man who has no problems is out of the game.”
“I’m doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything from the outside, I’m focused on winning and that next game.”
“For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.”
“When you think of intelligence, don’t think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don’t have human intelligence, you’re not even in the game.”
“The approach of ‘Game of Thrones’ is similar to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ in that it treats its source material almost like history, and it focuses as much on the human drama as it does on anything fantastical.”
“What’s so strong about ‘Game of Thrones’ is that it’s a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop.”
“I’ve never felt like I can’t do anything because I’m a woman. Never, ever. I was privileged enough to be surrounded by women that were at the top of their game and just freakin’ doing it.”
“With all due respect to the nation’s fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.”
“Navratilova won an astounding 167 singles titles and 166 doubles titles in a career which has spanned nearly 30 years. She changed the game of women’s tennis by forcing opponents to reach her standards of fitness and athleticism.”
“We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.”
“I have always kept my beauty regime super simple, but I would say discovering you could use coconut oil to take off eye-makeup remover has been a game changer.”
“I was really attracted to doing ‘Game of Thrones’ because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.”
“There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.”
“Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn’t come back and now he’s winning.”
“I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn’t hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.”
“You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don’t see that in Italy or Spain. It’s not because they can’t afford to buy them, it’s because that’s not what eating together as a family is about.”
“After my last audition for ‘Game of Thrones,’ they said, ‘Congratulations, princess.’ I was like, ‘Bye-bye, call centre.’”
“Never in a million years did I think ‘Game of Thrones’ was going to take off like it did.”
“I’ve read all the ‘Game of Thrones’ books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.”
“I think ‘Game Of Thrones’ is incredibly true to the books. I think the fans will, hopefully, be very pleased with how true to the books we are.”
“I would love to have a conversation with you when we’re working, and if I’m at a basketball game, I’ll probably talk to everyone there. That’s different. But on the outside world, if I don’t know you and you don’t know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.”
“Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.”
“In Spain, people understand football is a fun game, and enjoyment comes first. After that, business follows.”
“Football is a game. Don’t get me wrong – there is money and other things in it, too – but it’s still only a game.”
“Ozil is a genius. He has one-of-a-kind vision for the game. He has two eyes in the front of his head and two eyes in the back.”
“I need a manager who will tell me to go out and play my own game and enjoy myself.”
“Popularity isn’t an objective in itself. I’m not in this game.”
“Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.”
“Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.”
“I’ve given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.”
“I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.”
“I have achieved everything that I ever wanted to accomplish in this game and more so, for me, I have been fulfilled.”
“As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.”
“I’ve had calf problems for many years, and it has been very difficult for me because I’ve played out of position, which means more sprints. Ten minutes into the game, I’ve not been able to feel my feet in a few games. I didn’t like to go to the media and say, ‘I am injured.’”
“I always say the Premier League is the best in the world, and I still feel it is an honour to be playing here, but I think English football suits my game. Football is more physical here; the ref is not whistling every foul.”
“I left Bayern because I needed the game time.”
“I always make sure I work hard every day and give everything in the game, in training, and off the pitch, too.”
“Of course, sometimes you are tired and everything, but I think the most important thing is the mentality – if you say you are fit and want to go, then you can go every game.”
“I think you are wrong if you play a Champions League game, and you don’t find motivation.”
“If teams come to Anfield, I don’t think they will be expecting to get an easy game.”
“I don’t put faces on a dartboard. I just love the game, and I think I play it very well.”
“I think obviously the men’s game has a greater emphasis on physique and strength and speed. The women’s game can be quite skilful and tactical by comparison.”
“If a player has been affected by racist chanting, then it is up to the officials to stop the game and make sure a message is read out to the supporters asking them to stop.”
“We can be tackled but referees are there to police dangerous challenges. Forwards are protected by the laws of the game and the way it’s played, while defenders and midfielders have to throw themselves about a bit more.”
“I feel that sometimes managers think that, if they can come up with a tactic that leads to success in a major game, they can get all the plaudits.”
“To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.”
“For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.”
“Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows from the ’90s. It’s like, ‘Why do such a bland corporate aesthetic when the sky’s the limit with what you can do?’”
“I think ‘Game Of Thrones’ has been genius, and I really don’t want it to end. Every episode is huge. It’s totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn me in.”
“Just growing up, my dad always told me the most important point of the game is the extra point. A lot of people take that play off. It’s an opportunity to make something happen, and I’m going to make the most of it.”
“My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.”
“I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.”
“I don’t need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.”
“I think life is a big game we play.”
“The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.”
“I’ve never seen ‘Game of Thrones.’ I’ve never seen ‘Breaking Bad.’ I can’t tell you one character outside of Walter White.”
“It’s like, now you’re actually complaining because you’re making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that’s going to pay you that.”
“Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can’t come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That’s part of the game.”
“I’m having a good time. I’m going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.”
“I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I’ve always known it was better to be seen and not heard.”
“I don’t love football the way I once loved the game. I don’t look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.”
“With ‘Anna Karenina,’ I just think it’s a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.”
“The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.”
“I had a friend who had done the cinematics for ‘Splinter Cell: Conviction,’ so he kind of indoctrinated me into the series. I did a bunch of temp stuff for him – I roughed stuff in the game for him, playing about nine characters – just so he had some character templates to work from.”
“I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that’s a great thing.”
“I’ve been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.”
“Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one’s loss is precisely the other’s gain.”
“Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the ’04 elections is that politics is a word game.”
“I don’t look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for ‘Halo’, which for me, transcends being just a great video game. It’s evolving into a whole new mythology.”
“I think that’s awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.”
“Football is a game.”
“Everybody evaluates their own situation as far as playing this game.”
“Tackling is my favorite part of the game.”
“The funny thing about advertising is that it’s not a zero-sum game… Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it’s possible for everyone to win, and it’s perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.”
“I’m a firm believer in the hustle game.”
“I travel probably four days a week. That’s the game of international development. You have to be at your properties. No developer is successful sitting behind their desk.”
“I usually take the first batch of some ice cream, eat it, and then about an hour later, at halftime of the Sunday night game, I go after a second serving. So I pretty much get a whole gallon of ice cream Sunday night. It’s pretty bad.”
“I’ve been to just one AFC championship game.”
“It honestly feels like high school or college all over again. You’re comfortable; you see the game. You’ve seen a lot of ups and downs, a lot of good plays and bad plays. They’re all in the back of your head. It’s all just experience over the years. There are guys that play well as rookies, but it’s hard.”
“I can sit back in 10, 15, 20 years, when I’m sitting with my kids, I’ll be able to say that I’m sitting in Ravens Stadium during a game, and I’m watching one of the best swimmers ever win a Gold for the U.S. You know, as you get older, you cherish those kinds of moments.”
“I want everyone to do well and to be as successful as you can. Because at the end of the day, this game is about relationships and what you make of them.”
“I played baseball, and that’s pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that’s why I probably play it the way I do.”
“My parents are divorced, but they have and always are there for me. They’ve never missed a ball game or anything else I’ve done, and we’ve always been so close.”
“If we could begin to look at water pollution as a human rights violation, and we could begin to look at criminal aspects of this, I think that could be a game changer for many companies who want to not be forthwith and think that they can just hold off in a lawsuit for 10 years, and in the meantime, people are still being poisoned.”
“Water is on the table for every single one us. When it’s gone, game over. I don’t care what company you run; I don’t care if you’re Republican or liberal.”
“I’ve never dated anywhere else, so I only know L.A. dating, and I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy. I’ve pulled back and taken the pressure off of myself to figure it out, because there’s so much pressure about status that dating has become this game where you pull out all your tricks.”
“The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.”
“My favorite video game of all time is called ‘Black Tiger’. It’s a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.”
“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
“All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.”
“Dembele is a player who has been playing regularly, from the bench or the start, and he has quality. When he comes off the bench, he can change a game, and that’s a quality that is undervalued in football. Not everybody has that quality.”
“What I’d most highlight about Leo Messi is his huge sense of responsibility for the team. It shows in every game in every competition.”
“Football is a game of errors. You want to make your rivals commit them and to avoid them yourself.”
“Football is a game of emotions.”
“Wins are big boosts for your confidence, but sometimes you don’t notice little things. When you lose a game, it means that the opponent has had a plan, and it’s worked – now we need to see our capacity for response.”
“If you win a game, everyone is happy, and if you lose, everyone is watching you.”
“I hit a home run in my first game, and they told me to go into the stands and pass my cap around. I made six dollars in nickels, dimes, and quarters.”
“The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.”
“It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two!”
“I’d like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.”
“You don’t have to be long off the tee, and we know the amazing effect an Open crowd can have if you’re on your game and how they can lift you.”
“Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course – when your score is really on the line – is another story.”
“Ball position is everything in iron play. If you aren’t careful about it, you can create some major problems in your game just by getting an inch or two off.”
“I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political ‘gotcha.’”
“The game’s the thing. That’s why people tune in. They don’t tune in to hear an announcer.”
“Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.”
“Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!”
“I think we’ve overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.”
“We see a lot of gory deaths on ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“We know football is a difficult game. Sometimes you win and lose.”
“Nothing’s really been handed to me, and I’ve stayed in the game long enough to get an opportunity that I’ve been hopefully knocking it out of the park every chance I get.”
“I feel very proud of everyone I’ve worked with on ‘SpongeBob’ because they’re all brilliant artists working at the top of their game to make something really special, and I think audiences feel that.”
“Active investment is a zero-sum game. Passive managers don’t play the game. They buy something resembling the market as a whole, or some segment of the market, and they don’t respond to the actions of active managers.”
“The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.”
“We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.”
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.”
“Maria Sharapova winning Wimbledon at 17, I don’t think that’s ever going to happen again. It’s a different game now. I need to stay focused and work on my game, and it will come.”
“Assimilation, not success, is the American end game.”
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
“I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I’m courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!”
“The game’s been good to me and I hope I’ve been good to the game. I’m 50 years old and I’ve pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.”
“’Lip Lock’ is a play on words. It sounds flirty and fun. Also, my lips are one of my favorite features. Also, it’s like, literally locking the game down with my words because I’m a lyricist.”
“Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn’t cheat.”
“Just as Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka’s ‘The Trial,’ awoke one day to discover that he had become part of some unfathomable legal carnival, we, too are frequently waking to discover that the rules of the digital game have once again profoundly changed.”
“In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.”
“Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn’t get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.”
“You can’t win every game, so I’ve just got to get back to work and get better next week.”
“I’m a guy who can play all three downs, and I excel in all areas of the game.”
“I’ve worked on my game, and I don’t think it has any holes, no weaknesses. I say that with humility because you can always work to get better. But I run inside, I run outside, and I’m just not a guy you have to take off the field for certain packages.”
“I think they’re taking a little bit of the fun out of this pro game.”
“This is a physical game, and that’s how you have to play. When you do that, the defense eventually gets tired of tackling you.”
“We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.”
“You don’t want to attack one game more than another.”
“Honestly, the type of runner I am, I’m a physical guy, and I try to set the tone early in the game, so you’re going to see it a lot in the first and second quarter.”
“During the game, there has to be a moment where you have to set the tone. You have to let them know that you’re a physical player.”
“When you let those defensive backs know that you’re a physical player, they don’t really want to tackle. That’s it. That’s why you see me get a hurdle every game. Those guys don’t want to tackle me when I get to the second level.”
“I can be very emotional, so when it’s the build-up to a game I enjoy that side of trying to help push the team and get them fired up.”
“I feel like if the mentality is there then why not aim to win every game? We are not here just coast through games. We need to go into games thinking we are going to win.”
“I believe I am a player that can organise the game well for my team.”
“Enjoy the games, and go on the pitch with happiness, and go game by game.”
“Mr. Trump, Americans can’t afford, and don’t want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you’re not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you’ve done before taking office is fair game.”
“We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.”
“Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be at all the parties and all the events, and I was pretty hard to miss. I was one of the few Spanish cats sitting there with jewelry on, Dapper Dan suits. It was pretty hard to miss me.”
“I collaborate with Tidal because they’re for the artists – the up and coming artists and the O.G.s in the game. It’s like a home, the only place we have for the artists to find support.”
“It’s not in baseball’s interest or the players’ interest to be taking this stance. It’s the people’s game.”
“Nothing is impossible on ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“It’s part of the magic of ‘Game of Thrones,’ all the secrets.”
“I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in ‘EA Sports MMA’ because this game is going to show the global appeal of mixed martial arts.”
“When I carve out time to game, it’s because I rationalize that I ‘deserve it,’ so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.”
“I’m super excited about gaming always. That’s the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I’m surfing if I’m not already playing a game at night.”
“’TableTop’ is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn’t have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.”
“Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.”
“In ’05, ’06, ’07 and ’08, I wasn’t throwing any changeups at all. Maybe two or three per game. In ’09, I started playing with the grip, started throwing it in the bullpen and playing catch. It came out really good.”
“In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.”
“Occasionally, when I come off during a game, I get a little bit angry. But it’s only because I want to play in every game and every minute to help my team-mates.”
“For me, in football, everything is possible, and every game is a battle.”
“In the Premier League, the most important thing is not to give the team at the top of the table reasons to keep winning game after game.”
“Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.”
“We all know the Premier League is a competitive league and that every game is competitive.”
“We all know the Premier League is so tough and many, many things can happen – right until the last game of the season.”
“As a human, as a professional player, you have to improve every day, every training session, every game.”
“It’s always difficult when you have had a game in midweek to get to a final.”
“It is not a problem – you don’t think about the climate, or the cold; we just think about winning the game.”
“Of course, when you lose any game, the feeling is so bad. But you have to be professional and have to be clever and overcome this situation and try to work on that and try to fix the problem and solve for the next game.”
“It is impossible to do it for the whole game, but when you have the ball for most of the game and have players like Samir Nasri, David Silva, Yaya Toure, and Raheem Sterling, they keep the ball so well.”
“The first time was in Brazil, and the second time was when I was playing for Shakhtar against Inter in Milan. Fans were banned from the stadium on both occasions, and it is different. You have to keep your concentration on the pitch and try to win the game.”
“For me, the Premier League is the best tournament in the world. It’s the hardest; you need to be 100 per cent to play every game.”
“You can play basketball and have a magic night and score 40 points with your team-mates and win the game. There are favourites for the World Cup, but you can’t guarantee Germany, Spain, or Brazil will win, but here, everyone can guarantee that Mercedes or Ferrari will win the race, and this is very sad for the sport.”
“An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.”
“Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.”
“Each player has one place in the world where he is happy, and as a result, he plays well. My place is Anfield. Every game I can play there, I feel good.”
“When I played against Chelsea, there was always a big motivation because it was a special game; it was always one of the biggest games of the season. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to join Chelsea: because I want to be part of this kind of team.”
“I was away from the game for a few years, and it feels good to be back. I’m bowling quite well and also getting the ball to reverse swing. During the time off, I worked a lot on getting the ball to reverse swing; now it’s working well for me.”
“For me, David Warner isn’t just the future of Australian batting, he’s the future for cricket in general because he can excel in any form of the game. I’m excited just watching him.”
“I admire Messi: he’s never complained to me in any game we played, but I’ve also never asked him for his jersey and never would. I came to win, not to say I played against Messi.”
“Every child has played video games growing up and played WWE games. To be part of a video game, it’s an unbelievable experience.”
“I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than ‘Game of Thrones.’ Like, they’re not even on the same playing field.”
“About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half – and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school – I picked up ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“I worked on ‘Game Of Thrones’ for six years, so I’m very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.”
“I’ve had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of ‘Game of Thrones.’ You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.”
“I’m usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they’ve aired. But I love ‘House of Cards,’ ‘The Killing,’ ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ loved ‘True Detective,’ and ‘Arrested Development’ when it was on. Also ‘The Wire,’ though I was way late to the game on that.”
“Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.”
“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”
“It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they’re not the only players in this game.”
“I know that there’s a god because I was able to survive everything that I’ve been through – all of the tough times – and I’m still at the top of my game.”
“I wouldn’t want to get involved with a game that’s a stinker – I can smell one of those a mile away.”
“I actually really liked the music to the ‘Friday the 13th’ Nintendo game. I still listen to it all the time. I sampled it in a couple records, too. It’s hypnotic and dark but also really pretty.”
“I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones – ‘The Crying Game’ I loved working on, and then ‘Bird,’ ‘Ghost Dog,’ so many films.”
“I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don’t mean just seeing a few moves ahead – something else. My game started getting better. It’s the patterns. The patterns are universal.”
“Ultimately, we need to grow the women’s game. That’s the biggest issue; it always has been. Then you can talk about equal pay and everything else.”
“I like to wear the same kind of boots that I’ve worn in training going up to the game so that I’ve got a feel for the boots.”
“The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he’s set for life. I didn’t think I was set for life, and I don’t now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.”
“During a game, it comes down to your mind – the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you’re stood over one, that’s not the case. It’s in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.”
“I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it’s launched, I don’t intervene at all.”
“I believe that filmmaking – as, probably, is everything – is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you’ve got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.”
“I’m dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.”
“But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.”
“As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, ‘You suck; you shouldn’t be playing rugby.’”
“You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It’s very much a chess game – they make a move, you have to make a move.”
“The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity.”
“Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don’t go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that ‘homecoming.’”
“I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It’s the nature of the beast; that’s the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed – because the price of tickets has gone up so much – that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.”
“As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a game that had been scheduled when Cumberland still had a team, or Heisman threatened to demand a $3,000 forfeiture fee that could well have put the school out of existence.”
“I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission – say, of retired judges – to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.”
“It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established – that was always the obligatory verb: established – before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.”
“At all levels – with men and women – the 3-point shot has utterly transformed the way the game is played. More and more, the players are spread out, looking to pop behind the 3-point arc.”
“First and foremost, Howard Cosell is sports. There are all these people, these fans, who claim that when Cosell does a game on television, they turn off the sound on the TV and listen to the radio broadcast. Oh, sure. You probably know critics in your neighborhood who vow the same thing. Well, too bad for them.”
“Several NBA teams got their best gates every season when they scheduled a doubleheader and booked the Globetrotters and their stooges for the opening game.”
“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.”
“It is wonderful… Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.”
“I can’t stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you’ll come through.”
“I’m like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it’s not possible.”
“It was very frustrating when I was president of Hakoah. You could not make any headway. We couldn’t attract the public because it was an ethnic game. Australians were not interested.”
“The game needs to be funded by sponsors, by members, by broadcasters. There needs to be a commercial relationship between the FFA and the people who supply the money so it is a natural alliance. Sport is not a charity.”
“I haven’t seen a player in this game, as long as I’ve been in it, that can’t be pitched to… Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.”
“When you’re going into a game, you’re not expected to hit a home run every game. You’re just doing everything proper with proper swings.”
“Fellas, it’s all a numbers game. The more women you meet, the greater chance you have of finding the right one.”
“I don’t think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.”
“I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.”
“Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.”
“We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.”
“I feel like touring is a man’s game. And I don’t think that’s sexist; I just think, on tour, you can’t really take care of yourself the way you want to.”
“You learn a lot as a coach when you sit back and tell someone what to do, and then you realize, ‘Hey, I need to start doing that myself.’ I think coaching can improve a fighter’s game tremendously.”
“We’re not getting judged or rated by just our fighting ability. People want to watch guys who are flamboyant and have something to say, and that’s just the nature of the fight game and the game we’re in. I get it.”
“If you game Facebook and Google in the right way, then you can achieve a mass audience.”
“This is the game of those who deny climate change or who deny the need for sustainability. They say, ‘They are going to take everything away from us. They are going to take our cars away from us. They are going to take our steaks from us. They are going to take all the things that make life nice away from us. So let’s not go there.’”
“Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move – you don’t interrupt.”
“Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.”
“Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don’t have two home supply centers touching each other.”
“I don’t want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I’m learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.”
“With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.”
“I don’t know why a computer game can’t be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I’m still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.”
“There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can’t really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.”
“Foursquare’s adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.”
“People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.”
“Coming in here and having fun with the guys, loving everyone, playing this game – it’s a lot of fun.”
“I have one goal every single year, and that’s to play every single game.”
“Just got to keep going out there and keep swinging. That’s all I can really do. Getting work in, doing everything I can to get ready for the game.”
“You’re going to be friends with people longer than you’re going to be teammates in this game.”
“I wasn’t fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I’m not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn’t. I didn’t understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it’s me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It’s like a perfect marriage.”
“I’m not trying to act like I’m Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I’m just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses – as a human, as a person, as a man.”
“I’m not a big video game dude though, but I like ‘Madden.’”
“I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center.”
“When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that.”
“I’ve been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball – a basketball, baseball, football – I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV.”
“I want to be one of the most versatile rappers in the game.”
“The goal is not to just do ‘Video Game High School’ every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year.”
“Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects.”
“It’s frustrating at times when you think you’ve earned a chance to play on the field and you’re over there sitting on the bench. That’s not the kind of player I am. I’m the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.”
“When you get into the game you’ve got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I’m gonna be freakin’ creative.”
“You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch… passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it’s just a mindset you need to go into the game with.”
“Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism – in that sense, playing the game of US interests – by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.”
“I already watched Barcelona as a kid, and then, when I was a bit more aware of the game, you had the Guardiola era with all their successes. That turned me into an even bigger fan.”
“When I am on the pitch, I play on intuition, but I think a lot about the game as well.”
“I like to watch the great players, the ones who are technically good and understand the game. I try to see how they move.”
“The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.”
“My favorite rappers are, I can’t really say. I like Kanye because he’s so creative. He’ll just do anything. I like what Kanye’s bringing to the game. Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.”
“I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music – hip-hop, and just music, period. ‘Cause I come from hip-hop, that’s my background, but I’m not gonna let that limit me from where I can go.”
“My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I’m not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.”
“It’s fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it’s a miserable game when things aren’t going well.”
“I hate golf to be tricked up. To me it’s a fun game.”
“When you’re around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.”
“It’s an honor to be able to tour with somebody I grew up listening to and somebody I look up to. When you’re around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.”
“I’ve learned how to stay humble. I don’t want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.”
“Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There’s not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.”
“The PC is successful because we’re all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.”
“If I buy a game on Steam and I’m running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.”
“If you look at a multi-player game, it’s the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that’s associated with it.”
“About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, ‘How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?’”
“I think it’s highly likely that we’ll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I’m not sure we’re all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens – which is a reasonable view, I’m just not sure I buy into it.”
“Looking from the outside at English football, at Spanish football, it’s more interesting, and they have the champions and the celebrities that they want to see. But with the passion that Italians have for football, the pride that they have, I don’t think the game will stay that way.”
“It goes without saying that I love the game, the tactics, the training, and everything that happens on the pitch.”
“I love the game and everything that goes with actually playing. What I don’t like so much are the interviews, the controversy, and all the external stuff.”
“Personally, I can’t take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can’t take on some kind of revenge or change history. I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play, but not because we went to war in 1982 or because we played against each other in 1998.”
“I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I’m self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn’t mean I will bring myself down, ever.”
“While American football is very structured and linear and static – where everyone lines up, and there’s a burst, and it happens – soccer is like the cosmos. It’s like constellations. It’s bodies moving in space. It’s a very spherical game.”
“I’d work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who’s a wushu master.”
“I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.”
“In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.”
“Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.”
“I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn’t seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to care, I have to have skin in the game.”
“It’s funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in ‘Madden,’ and now to see myself in the game, it’s an honor.”
“Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I don’t know how many pounds he outweighs me by… I still try to do things like him to make my game better.”
“I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.”
“It really doesn’t matter to me whether it’s defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I’ve been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.”
“I don’t care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.”
“When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.”
“I grew up, and my body was not like a Spanish player. I was tall. I had a powerful game; my arms were long, so I’m like, ‘No, you can’t play like Spanish players.’”
“I think my style of game is aggressive.”
“With the time, as I was growing up and I got taller and my arms were longer, I developed this aggressive style because I think it was better for me, for my style of game.”
“With time, I’ve got more used to grass, and I think my style of game helps.”
“When you play in the Premier League, say you’re playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it’s more of an open game, it’s more attacking, end-to-end.”
“You’ve just got to listen to what experienced people are telling you. You’ve obviously got to listen to what they want you to do in training and in matches and commit to improving every aspect of your game.”
“When you’re a sub, it’s a game of more than 11 players starting the game.”
“Once you win something, yeah, you enjoy it. But then it’s on to the next game.”
“I was 32 when I signed for Everton, and Roberto Martinez said, ‘With your style of game, you can play until you’re 40.’ I’m sitting there laughing at him, but he was deadly serious. I still laughed.”
“Against Chelsea, you will have periods in the game when you are right up against it, when they keep the ball. They are pretty solid the way they set their team up.”
“I knew my first game at Everton wasn’t going to be a stroll around the pitch.”
“If you win games, you think things are comfortable, and they are not. The best players don’t think that way, and that’s why they get to where they are: they don’t worry about what has gone on and think only about the next game.”
“Everyone’s expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn’t happen like that.”
“You play the game to win things, and if you asked me whether I would want to finish in the top four or win the FA Cup, it’d be FA Cup every time.”
“I’ve got massive respect for Arsene Wenger for what he’s done for the English game, and it would have been good to work under him, but that didn’t happen.”
“I didn’t like it as a player when I felt a coach was fudging the reasons for leaving me out. As a player, I wanted to know where I was lacking in my game and where I could improve in order to get back in the team.”
“Very often, you can go into one game and do really well, and then you have to find that level of performance so quickly again.”
“If we want to be a top team, we can’t get to 3-0 and suddenly decide not to play without the ball. We have to play with intelligence right through the game.”
“We want to win every game of football we go into. I don’t know how we would go into a game not wanting to win and not wanting to play well.”
“I don’t think, when you are involved with England, you can ever write any game or tournament off – that wouldn’t be acceptable.”
“T20 is good entertainment. It is a game you need. People go to watch it. You have to be careful how far you let it go.”
“I enjoyed playing any type of cricket. Didn’t matter what type it was because I did not want to change my game. My game was built on one type of cricket: if there was a ball to hit, you hit it, whether it was Test matches, whatever it was.”
“I don’t think cricket is a game that people who have never played or been involved in understand the excitement. It’s a game that is full of excitement, because cricket lovers follow the game and understand the basic principles and rules. They become connoisseurs of the game.”
“In cricket, there is a lot of psychology in the game, especially if you are watching people who are not top-class.”
“When I look at someone like Andrew Symonds, I see a player who has done phenomenally well with the bat, as his record shows. He certainly has the ability to be a very good all-rounder, but I think to be a great one, you need to be able to turn a game with the bat or the ball.”
“I actually signed on to do ‘On the Road’ before we started on ‘Tron,’ but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.”
“It was not about losing my mental power; it’s about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.”
“I may play some exhibition games so I don’t want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it’s a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.”
“I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.”
“I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don’t want my love of the game to involve business.”
“The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you’re responsible for snacks after the game.”
“All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn’t it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?”
“The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don’t know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.”
“I couldn’t do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn’t love the game.”
“We’re concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.”
“My message to the kids and our fans is hockey’s a great game. There’s a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don’t give up on the game. It’s too good.”
“Our economics are not baseball’s economics. Our game is not baseball’s game. Our owners are not baseball’s owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball’s union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.”
“You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn’t exciting, compelling, and competitive, it’s not going to generate a lot of interest.”
“What you want to do, particularly when you’re dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people’s passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.”
“The issue of how the game is played is something that’s constantly being reviewed internally with the Players’ Association, with the general managers, and it’s something that we continue to monitor on a daily basis.”
“We don’t tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.”
“I don’t worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.”
“Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.”
“I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you’re rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.”
“We don’t worry about the integrity of our game. I’m more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that’s something we’re comfortable with going forward.”
“When you’re in other time zones in other places, you don’t get quite as much attention; you don’t get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.”
“I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn’t have taken this job if I wasn’t a fan of the game.”
“There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.”
“What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.”
“We can’t do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.”
“The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.”
“Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It’s a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.”
“Role-playing isn’t storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it’s not a game.”
“Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.”
“Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it’s pretty much the whole game today.”
“Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”
“The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It’s great for the appreciation of the Premier League.”
“Looking at the way the game is played, I’m envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.”
“One of the last books I read was ‘Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime’ by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn’t ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn’t ask him that.”
“He’s got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can’t wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.”
“We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that’s the way it’s always been.”
“My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I’d live with aunts or uncles, then I’d run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.”
“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.”
“I had no interest in steroids. I didn’t need them, and I didn’t want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I’ve frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.”
“In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone’s writing all day long – sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they’re James Cameron’s Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.”
“I’ve worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It’s like a constant upgrade.”
“You’ve got to believe you can get a result from the game.”
“I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, ‘I wish I had more money.’”
“Storytelling is the game. It’s what we all do. It’s why Nike is Nike, it’s why Apple is Apple, it’s why Walt Disney built Disney World and it’s why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.”
“If I’m not driving the golf ball, now I can rely on something else to really get me through. It took me a while to get my game to that position, but I feel like I’m comfortable doing that now.”
“Adrenaline is a huge deal. All of a sudden you start hitting the golf ball a little bit farther. You learn to stay within yourself and what you have to do to calm yourself down and stay within your game plan.”
“I’ve always been a pretty good ball-striker, I’ve relied on my ball-striking in my whole career, my athletic ability. But the short game and putting has kind of held me back in majors.”
“I’m not going to abandon the power game, but I’m going to be sure use it to my advantage.”
“I can control my attitude, and I can control my game.”
“My short game was really what was really bad, to be honest with you. And so my whole deal was I had to hit chips off putting greens all the time, and there were some times where superintendents weren’t a huge fan of me.”
“I’m becoming a more complete player. I have more shots. I can rely more on my putting, rely on my short game.”
“Cricket is a team game. If you want fame for yourself, go play an individual game.”
“Ask any batsman what gives him maximum satisfaction. It’s scoring runs, whether it’s Ranji Trophy or any form of the game. When you get back to your room, knowing that you have scored a hundred, it gives you satisfaction.”
“Sometimes in a team game, the entire spotlight is on one man.”
“To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.”
“Yes, I’m the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.”
“I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.”
“I came into the Indian team and was touted as someone who did well only against weaker oppositions. There were doubts creeping into my game. I was looking for support, someone to put an arm around my shoulder and say I am good and I belong to this place. Virender Sehwag is that someone for me.”
“When you go out on the field, you don’t go out to make friends… I play to win the game and not just to compete.”
“Some individuals relish the fact that they are not drawing attention and can quietly go about their game while others want to show off.”
“My primary job is to score runs and make KKR win, and that’s what I am trying to do. Rest, I don’t think too much. That’s how I have always played my game.”
“A bowler will always say it’s a batsman’s game.”
“When you are playing against an opposition, you want to go out there and win a game, and for that, you have to be aggressive.”
“I love discussing my game with people who have similar mindsets.”
“Most big popcorn movies are ‘bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.’ And ‘Ender’s Game’ is just not that simple, so it’s an exciting challenge. It’s a little terrifying, and let’s see how audiences respond.”
“My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.”
“For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like ‘Ender’s Game,’ then hopefully it works.”
“’Ender’s Game’ has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there’s also a tremendous central character. It’s a balance.”
“I would love to have dinner with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I think we would have a lot to chat about. I like them both so much, and I love them as a couple. I like that they are both at the top of their game – and that they have a mutual respect and admiration for each other.”
“All young wrestlers would love to see their game back in Olympics.”
“Even my grandmother would tell me that girls should not wrestle, it’s a man’s game.”
“Wrestling is different from other sports. It is not just about physical strength. It is more of a mind game as during matches we have to read the mind of opponents and outwit them.”
“California continues to lead the nation in the fight against climate change, and electrifying our transportation sector is the next game changer.”
“I’m always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don’t have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I’m making my own choices.”
“I can’t always say that justice is always done in ‘Game of Thrones.’ It is not.”
“Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.”
“I think dancing is a man’s game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.”
“The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.”
“Boxing is serious. It’s not a game. Just one punch – change life.”
“This is boxing. It’s not like a baseball game. The fighters say, ‘I need a lot of money or I don’t fight, because it’s very dangerous.’”
“I’d love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn – a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces – a less interesting game.”
“When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.”
“We’ve got to get the public back into watching Test matches – speeding up the game with innovation is one way forward.”
“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”
“Football is a sad game.”
“I can remember earning ã5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.”
“When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.”
“Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there’s number-cruncher and statistician guy – I’m sitting around – they start talking about stuff, and I say, ‘What’s that? I’ve never heard of that one before.’”
“I’m a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is… and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.”
“The game is never lost till won.”
“All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do – fight while they can.”
“I’ve seen a dead body, I’ve seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I’ve been a hunter since I was a child, though I don’t anymore, I’ve gutted wild game.”
“The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into red wine, coffee and sushi for the first time. Well done, George.”
“I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.”
“Don’t do anything in practice that you wouldn’t do in the game.”
“At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.”
“At the point we finished ‘Abbey Road,’ the game was up. We all accepted that.”
“The only real game – I think – in the world is baseball.”
“You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you’ve been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.”
“Who is the ally of the coach? Who’s going to write, ‘Man, that was a well-coached game.’ Players win, coaches lose.”
“I want to try to prove the world wrong – that you can run and win in the NBA, and you can win big if you keep running. The problem is, can you run for 82 games every minute, every possession of every game?”
“There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don’t do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It’s a compromise as a coach.”
“The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there’s a lot of other junk that goes around the game.”
“I don’t know anybody else who lives 1,000 miles away from their job and gets to commute back and forth. The owner said, ‘You can live in your beloved Swifton, but don’t you dare miss a game.’ I had a few close calls, but I didn’t miss any.”
“It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you’d pick Hal Newhouser.”
“The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can’t help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.”
“Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.”
“Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.”
“There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.”
“There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It’s a difficult game, but it doesn’t have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests – ‘lobbies’ they call them in the States.”
“Because several ‘Titans’ characters have been used in video games, I’ve got royalty checks for six figures. And I had no knowledge of this until I opened the mailbox, because I don’t follow the video game world!”
“I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be ‘A Game of Thrones’.”
“You don’t want to be that parent – the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks – especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.”
“For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that’s become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader’s ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.”
“In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard’s only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.”
“Tom Seaver was let loose twice by the Mets and pitched a no-hitter for the Reds and won his 300th game for the White Sox, but he wears a Mets cap in the Hall of Fame as homage to the 1969 championship.”
“For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.”
“I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.”
“I love Major League Soccer, covered the first game in 1996 in a funky stadium in San Jose, and I applaud just about every move that its commissioners, Garber and Doug Logan, have made.”
“Baseball’s postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.”
“Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike.”
“In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.”
“Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart or are hurling themselves into wasteful protests against the so-called Establishment.”
“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.”
“Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents – judges’ decisions – rather than statutes, baseball’s codes are the game’s distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.”
“You will not create a lot of chances in every game, but if you stop the opponent getting chances, you will win more.”
“Every team learns when they lose a game.”
“You must play with the same intention: to win the game and give everything you have.”
“You can’t afford to lose games. It is always possible that you will not win, but it is the way you play the game.”
“It’s not normal to score four goals in a game.”
“At seven, I played centre-back. When you’re so young, though, it’s more to enjoy the training and to get a feel for the game. It’s not heavy on tactics of a position. We were playing on a half pitch, seven against seven or eight against eight, so they say you’re a centre-back, but it’s not like the real definition.”
“You’re always disappointed when you lose a game.”
“Every game is a new game, and anything can happen.”
“Every game is different.”
“For Feyenoor,d the biggest game is Ajax, but if Sparta are going to play for the title, then that will be the biggest game. It depends how both teams are doing.”
“You will always learn from games. But every game is not the same, not the same emotion.”
“If you are busy with a good performance, something you can control, then the chance to win the game is much bigger.”
“In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.”
“I think if you think that far ahead about the first four, or to be champions, that is something you cannot control. You can control the training, and then the performance will come game by game, and do not think that far ahead.”
“I remember my last game for Newcastle in the pre-season, when their fans were singing that they wanted me to stay, but when the opportunity came to play for a great club like Liverpool with such a great history, I had to take it. I hope they understand why I made that choice to go to Liverpool.”
“It’s always a special game when you play against your previous club.”
“The wine I produce is not for keeping. It’s the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.”
“Cristiano has a lot to his game – he is good in the air, his shooting is perfect, his left foot perfect, and he is more of a striker than a winger now, a No. 9.”
“I am trying to improve the defensive side of my game and become an all-round wide-player, but my USP is that I am an attacking winger that takes players on, commits opponents, and excites fans. I think we are an increasingly rare breed.”
“I’m happy here at Everton. When I decided to come here, I came thinking only in my club, which is Everton, and nothing else. What has to happen next will happen next. I feel comfortable here. I do not know whether my game is more suited to the Premier league or La Liga, but I am very well here.”
“I always followed Everton. If the team were playing on television, I would watch the game. If not, then I would look to check the results. I always wanted to see how they were doing.”
“In England, there are big games but nothing like the Clasico. Manchester United versus Liverpool is a really great match, probably the best over there. But Barcelona-Madrid is different to any other game in the world.”
“I’ve never seen a Barca without control of the game. I’ve never seen a Barca that doesn’t have the ball and lets the opposition attack all the time.”
“I moved to Manchester United when I was a 17-year-old kid. Nemanja Vidic was five years older than me and Rio Ferdinand nearly nine years, and at the time, they were the best central defenders in the world. They never had a bad game.”
“My routine prior to a big game is the same for any other match. Eat, sleep, chat with teammates during the day, and then, as the match draws near, I listen to my music on the trip to the stadium and zone in.”
“When you’re playing for a great team like Madrid, with a lot of pressure because you have to win every game, it’s a difficult life.”
“What I like about The Sims is that I don’t have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It’s fun.”
“What Barcelona almost always do is play a good game, but we don’t always win.”
“If I have learned anything from my coaches, it’s that the next game is the most important. The next game is the one that gives you confidence or gets you into trouble.”
“Too many fighters stay in the game for too long. They stay because it’s awfully hard to walk away from the roar of the crowd. Really hard. You live for that and so you stay too long. And you might have a wife and kids to feed. So you keep fighting because you don’t know how to do anything else.”
“I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.”
“When you’re with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!”
“There’s not much you can complain about – you’re a Major League Baseball player; you’re getting paid to play a game. People want to be you, wish they could do what you do. There are some complaints here and there, but there really aren’t any significant ones.”
“I don’t want to get in trouble here, but the All-Star Game shouldn’t count for anything. It should just be for fun.”
“The one thing I didn’t understand was the Minor Leagues, how that part of the business works. I’d see Todd Hollandsworth out there one game, and the next game he wouldn’t be there, and I didn’t understand.”
“I’m not going to change the way I work out in the offseason and prepare. I’m not going to change the way I approach the game. I’m not going to change the way I play every day.”
“It’s never fun to sit and watch, especially when you think you could be impacting the game.”
“The game is nine innings. It’s not two, three. It doesn’t matter if it’s the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It’s not two innings – it’s nine.”
“The pitch is the most beautiful part of the game; it gives you emotions which bring meaning to life.”
“It’s fine to admit being nervous – after the event. But if you tell people you’re uptight before the game, it can be like, ‘That guy’s got problems. We can’t trust him.’”
“How do I imagine my last-ever game? Maybe I’ll go out like Zidane, headbutting someone on the pitch!”
“LeBron James is one of the best players in the league – and one of the best players to ever play the game.”
“You have so many games to play, and you can do well in one game but bad in the other ones. The thing you’ve got to be is consistent.”
“I want to become one of the best players, so if you want to be one the best, you have to elevate all aspects of your game.”
“To be one of the best to ever play the game? I think I have the ability to do that. But I’ve got to work hard. If I just keep talking and don’t put some work in, it’s not going to happen.”
“I’ve got to perfect my game. Keep working.”
“The night before games, I try to get some shots up. Early on the game day, I come early in the morning to try to get some shots up. I just try to do the same things: go through the scouting, watch some clips before the game, just try to get my body ready.”
“Of course, I know by growing older, I’m going to become stronger, smarter, and know the game better.”
“Obviously, Kobe is one of the greatest players to ever play the game.”
“Dirk Nowitzki is the best European player, for me, that’s ever played the game. He’s an unbelievable talent.”
“I cannot take 30 jumpers a game. Got to have a balance. You’ve got to get your teammates involved.”
“I know it’s hard when guys leave the game. They’re sitting there analyzing, and they’re getting itchy.”
“I can’t take a game-winner in practice. I can’t shoot free throws in practice that simulates the game. There’s no crowd; there’s no nothing.”
“We know that if we play our game and execute, then we are going to have a lot of success.”
“40-minute game at Duke – they got soft rims – I’d probably score 84 or 85. I wouldn’t pass the ball. I wouldn’t even think about passing it. It would be like a ‘NBA Live’ or an ‘NBA 2K7’ game: you just shoot with one person.”
“I think I’m one of the rare people out there who still cares about the game of basketball.”
“If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I’m staying in the gym to keep shooting. That’s what I did.”
“Some people would rather not go to arenas; they’d rather just sit at home and watch the game at home or play on the computer.”
“But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.”
“My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house.”
“Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it’s a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there’s also such anonymity.”
“I love the chess game that I do on ‘Suits.’ I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.”
“One day. I was putting on a hill in Zurich, and a few hundred yards away, Diana Ross was doing a sound test at an arena for a performance that night of ‘Take My Breath Away,’ my song with her. That was a very nice game, an incredible feeling.”
“I’m really happy with how things have gone in Santander. I think coming back to Spanish football has been crucial. This is where I grew up as a player, where I learnt the game.”
“I’m getting fitter, and I have more confidence. I feel like I’m getting better every game.”
“When I was 16, I’d been cast in ‘Fast Food Nation.’ And while I was playing in a charity baseball game, I ended up breaking my arm about a week before filming was starting.”
“Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books… you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.”
“As for the claim that drone ‘pilots’ are not engaged in the extinguishing of human life via video games, the military’s own term for its drone kills – ‘bug splat,’ which happens to be the name of a children’s video game – and other evidence negates that.”
“I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.”
“I started the 1998 World Cup with Teddy Sheringham up front but always planned for Michael Owen to face Colombia in our final group game because they defended square and a quick striker would be able to exploit the space behind them.”
“I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It’s an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I’m not interested in coaching international sides. I don’t mind short-term coaching. I don’t want to get involved in the politics of teams.”
“I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.”
“We’ll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we’ll just tell fear it can’t drive. Sometimes we’ll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, ‘Enough. No words.’ We’re going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.”
“For those who want to pick up old fights, we’re game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win, or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.”
“I always experience each game the same way, but the Clasico has something extra because you can’t play one every day.”
“I am sure my own game is improving by playing in Serie A.”
“When I went to Spain, it was a risk because I was really young. But I quickly learned the game, and I grew as a result.”
“You can’t slow the game here. It’s grass, it’s always going to be fast.”
“There’s always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That’s why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.”
“It doesn’t matter whether I’m in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I’m around the game, I feel at home.”
“I might have some quibbles with the way the game is played today, but at its core, I know that hockey will always be hockey no matter what year the calendar reads.”
“The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency – the new rules of the game.”
“Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase – ‘being in Europe’ – is dismissed with suspicion?”
“The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.”
“Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.”
“Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.”
“Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.”
“I feel usually the strength of my game is my driving, and over the past – even since I was in college and everything, my short game has been the thing that’s let me down.”
“My game is kind of built around hitting shots – that’s what I take pride in, and it’s what separates myself from other guys.”
“I never had the opportunity to pick up a golf club in school, and I think it is a cool thing for kids. Getting clubs in kids’ hands is the only way to grow this game.”
“’The Imitation Game’ is a celebration of Alan Turing’s life and legacy, and Joan’s final monologue is our eulogy. It’s the thing we all wished we could have said to him.”
“I started a novel right before ‘The Imitation Game,’ so it’s funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it.”
“If you’re setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.”
“A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there’s no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.”
“Players very widely disagree with me about what’s hard and what’s easy. and in a way, ‘I won, but it was a fight’ is the best compliment a game can receive.”
“The most frequent complaint is that it’s hard. True. it’s a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I’ll tell them.”
“I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.”
“I thought we were going to win the game but we won’t take the disappointments, we will take the positives.”
“Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.”
“Every game I played was a bonus.”
“I’m a Rangers fan and I love the club but this will be a difficult game.”
“I remember I was young, and the first game I watched was in the Premier League. It’s a big dream for me, and now that I’m here, I am very, very happy.”
“I knew before I arrived that the pressure at a club that challenges for the title grows quickly. The season is long; we’ll become stronger with every game.”
“My game is about being aggressive, and I’m not the same player if you take that away from me.”
“You have to be completely there in every game, and as soon as you drop your level even one per cent, you concede goals.”
“I’ve done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I’ve had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.”
“I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.”
“I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners – that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.”
“A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time.”
“When I’m not acting, you’ll probably either find me playing a game or working on my YouTube channel.”
“Me and my sister made up a game called ‘Milky Cow’. We were on holiday in France when I was 12, and there was a kid who had bovine features, and every time we went past her, we’d say, ‘There’s Milky Cow’.”
“My dad was in radio; he was a broadcaster, and it was in the family. He hosted kind of a game show at one point on TV; he was the original host of ‘Good Day New York,’ and he hosted the Jerry Lewis telethon for 15 years.”
“The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. And since cause-and-effect reasoning needs the concept of time – of one thing preceding another – the effort to establish causality is a mug’s game, an infinite regression of increasingly unanswerable questions.”
“I realize Twitter can be good, providing a video game of creativity for your brain.”
“Football has always been violent. In the early days of the game, they didn’t wear hard helmets. They wore soft helmets, which were just designed to protect the ears. In the ’40s and ’50s they began to introduce hard helmets, which provided much more protection against things like skull fractures.”
“Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.”
“I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it’s more fun when you win. I’d rather try and not win than not try at all.”
“The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.”
“Obviously it’s my second senior event, and I’m tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I’ve felt in pretty good control of my golf game.”
“So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I’ve got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that’s the way I’m going to take it.”
“The game of golf doesn’t come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn’t have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.”
“It’s a game. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself that you can’t have fun.”
“Everybody would love to be able to be great and make it to the NBA All-Star Game as a rookie. I mean, that is everybody’s goal.”
“I’m just trying to work on my game and get better. That’s all I can do. Keep working hard, keep trying.”
“I’ll know that when I play a good game, a decent game, and I know when I can play a lot better and aggressive, when I can take over a game myself.”
“I know it’s a team game, but, you know, the great ones can do that – have their team involved and take over a game.”
“You do it for the highs, when you’re totally engrossed and everything’s flowing and whatever you want, you get. It’s like magic. That’s why you play the game. That’s what it’s for. That’s why you work.”
“I have a real passion for anything medieval, which is why I love the drama series ‘Game Of Thrones.’”
“Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you’re just fair game.”
“I think people enjoy seeing my kind of game.”
“All I’m focused on is playing my game. Everything else will take care of itself.”
“I know tennis is just a game, but it’s something that it can actually unite us even more.”
“My father loved the single-handed backhand, so to him, that was the main goal; we were always fascinated by that shot. He taught me all the technique and how to structure my game. I was really privileged to have a father like that.”
“Tennis is such a fun game. One of the things that I really like is that everything depends on you. Before certain matches, you might have those butterflies, but that’s the excitement. There’s a ton of emotion that you’re going through.”
“Zelda is the best solo game; Mario Cart is the best group game.”
“It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.”
“For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.”
“I actually really love ‘Game of Thrones,’ and I don’t see a conflict in that.”
“I think anyone that grew up in the ’70s and ’80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always… when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.”
“I once saw professional soccer up there in Seattle, the Sounders. I went and saw that. I’m not a big soccer fan, but watching a live game is unbelievable. And then I went to Italy and saw a soccer match; it’s something everyone should do once. It’ll blow your mind.”
“When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.”
“Play every game as if it is your last one.”
“I love the game. I want to see creativity. I want to see great goals. I want ‘Wow!’”
“’Game of Thrones’ is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn’t have had a six-pack.”
“The whole format of ‘Game of Thrones’ is that you just don’t know what to expect.”
“In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.”
“Chess is a game of stimulation.”
“When we did ‘Back In The Game’ on the Wu-Tang ‘Iron Flag’ album, I did a verse about gambling. I didn’t want to be ‘back in the game’ or ‘back on the block’ – that’s typical. I made it all metaphorical.”
“One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.”
“I just have to make sure I keep improving my game in every aspect there is.”
“I owe a lot to Darren Perry. I don’t think I’d be this far this early if it wasn’t for him pushing me to run an extra second or showing me a play on film and telling me when I see it, that’s the green light to go do it and don’t be afraid to take that next step and take chances. That’s what the game is about.”
“I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut ’em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.”
“Most ‘reality’ shows aren’t reality at all. They’re game shows with no prize. Like ‘Rock of Love.’ His aren’t genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn’t really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone’s dreams.”
“Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.”
“My head is in the game! Like ‘High School Musical’ taught me. I know what I want, and I know, too, now that you take your craft seriously, but you don’t have to take yourself seriously.”
“People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe’s record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand.”
“The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.”
“I don’t think there’s any show comparable to ‘Game of Thrones’ in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.”
“For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.”
“I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I’m game.”
“Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.”
“I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It’s very thin, it’s made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.”
“The only difference between baseball guys or football guys and wrestling guys is that when you go to the game, you see a team out on the field wearing uniforms. In wrestling, you see a two-thirds naked guy up real close.”
“It must be nice for today’s hitters when you don’t have to worry about being thrown at. It’s a whole different deal. When I played, getting knocked down was an accepted part of the game.”
“In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.”
“Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.”
“Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.”
“When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, ‘The Pajama Game,’ in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way – a buck here, a buck there.”
“Did I run real swindles? Oh, yeah. I mean, I started as a – on the street. I did not begin as a performer. I began running the shell game.”
“I’ve raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I’ll take them to get their nails done – I actually love doing that – but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.”
“I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.”
“I watch television. Game shows – I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.”
“Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing.”
“You can run in behind someone – one v. one, you’re better – so I’m always trying to work on my speed. That’s probably one aspect I’ve worked on the hardest as a player. I want to always improve on everything in my game, but that’s one area I really work on.”
“It depends on how my football career goes, but when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game, it is something I would like to do.”
“I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager.”
“It is down to the manager what he wants to do in the transfer window. Us as players, we just have to focus on each game that comes along and try and do our best.”
“At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience – I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It’s definitely something that’s helped me with my game.”
“I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello’s first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember the national anthem was incredible. I sang it with pride – always do.”
“I played in different positions as a kid, and it helped me learn different parts of the game, but I found that I was always scoring goals, and that continued as I got older. I’ve always enjoyed scoring, and it seemed to come naturally. Fortunately, that has carried on into my professional career.”
“In a game, you never know what chance you’re going to get, so I try and cover all bases and make sure I’m ready for that chance when it comes.”
“The whole world of ‘Game of Thrones’ was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.”
“For us players, we just go into each game trying to win it and see where it takes us.”
“I am becoming more confident with every game.”
“When a team goes down to 10 men, it makes you go and attack the game, push bodies forward, and create extra numbers.”
“We go into every game looking to win them.”
“Have I ever left the field with a broken nose, black eye? Yes, numerous times. I’ve had a broken nose and a few black eyes. It’s part and parcel of the game, really.”
“If you’re not an ambitious footballer, you’re in the wrong game, really.”
“It is a cruel game at times.”
“To play in League One in every game when I was 18 was massive for my development. It’s something I’m very proud of. I have great memories, and it was a great experience.”
“Experience is a big thing when playing in the Premier League – it’s a different game to any other league.”
“If I keep a clean sheet, I have had a good game; it is as simple as that.”
“I’ve still got a scrapbook at home of the Munich air crash. I was an Arsenal supporter, and I went with my dad every week. I would have been 11 in 1958 and remember standing at Highbury for the Busby Babes. I remember that was the last game before they jetted off to Europe, and a lot of them never came back.”
“I am not a 34-year-old manager trying to make my way in the game; I have been around a long time.”
“I’ve got no hobbies – a game of golf every now and again, but that’s it.”
“The players don’t sit in there and think, ‘We have to make the Champions League.’ They want to play well in every game.”
“I do wonder how managers like Brian Clough and Bill Shankly would cope. How would Cloughie deal with players taking five pairs of different colour boots to a game?”
“If you buy too many bad players, you don’t last in this game.”
“No one is more of a fan of the game than me: my son is a player.”
“Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.”
“International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.”
“In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is – or should be – counterintuitive to pursue one’s interests without considering the interests of others.”
“In the ’80s, when Gretzky came to the World Championships in the second or third game, you’d see this guy skating circles around the other ones. Unbelievable.”
“If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.”
“In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.”
“In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don’t communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.”
“It’s always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it’s always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it’s sort of all business on the field.”
“I’m working on staying aggressive in my game and fixing all the little details.”
“I’m trying to be a complete player and have every shot in the game.”
“In the men’s game, there are three, four, five dominant players who pretty much win everything, but in the women’s, anyone can.”
“You have to play your ‘A’ game in every single match and that’s a good thing.”
“You make mistakes in a game, but if you come away with a win, that’s all gone.”
“Football is a game of speed and drama.”
“You’re at the top of your game if you do comedy.”
“I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it’s a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.”
“You have to budget time for the inevitable problems that come up with children. You have to always be ahead of the game. If your proposal is due at NASA on Friday, it has to be finished on Wednesday because, on Thursday, it could be fevers and head lice.”
“Men want to think women don’t cheat, and women want men to think they don’t cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.”
“When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.”
“I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.”
“You have to win every battle. Every small metre counts, and you have to win your duels. Then you will see you will win the game.”
“Coming to Manchester, maybe I didn’t show all my potential, but in every game, I’m trying to do my best because it’s very important for me, the fans, and the club. Maybe in some games it doesn’t work, but I still keep working and trying to improve.”
“If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.”
“It’s not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.”
“It’s always a pity to lose or draw at the end of the game; it’s always painful.”
“When we’re leading during the game, we have to squeeze the opponent.”
“I don’t think I will play every game, depending on the tactical situation, depending on the opponent, but I will do everything to try and help the team.”
“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
“I always wanted to become a student of the game and at least get six to eight fights before coming to the UFC.”
“It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.”
“Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.”
“The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.”
“To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.”
“Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you’re playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?”
“As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.”
“The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys’ camp fire.”
“I’m one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.”
“The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they’re sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.”
“Making the AI better in a video game is not like making the AI better in, say, a chess game. Making it better in terms of acting ability – we’re basically improving its acting so that the user can have more fun.”
“First, I take a lot of time to just explain my vision of what the game should be to the team. Then I make all subsequent decisions based on how I want to feel when I buy the game, and what impressions I want to have of it. I then go about implementing the little points that will lead up to that finished product.”
“What’s fun about these pure action games hasn’t really changed since the 8-bit days. Every time I make a new ‘Devil May Cry’ game, I always go back and play one of the ‘Ghouls & Ghosts’ games to remember what it is about those pure action experiences that’s fun.”
“’Monster Hunter’ was its own series, its own franchise, and it just so happened that we wanted to make a realistic fantasy-based action game, and because we had the staff available to make something like that, we’re able to make this game. The ideas for ‘Dragon’s Dogma’ came from a completely different place.”
“Whenever we start making a ‘Devil May Cry’ game, one thing we think about is, ‘What new weapons are we going to have for Dante?’”
“As far as how I create games, I’m just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I’m going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it’s a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.”
“With a movie, it’s probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.”
“’Metal Gear Solid’ is, for the most part, an infiltration game. You go somewhere, you execute your mission, then you go back. Those are your actions as the player.”
“I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique ‘Metal Gear Solid’ experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on ‘Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes’ for Nintendo GameCube.”
“Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It’s like putting all your effort into a new child that’s being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That’s when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.”
“As a game creator, I’m not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.”
“In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to ‘Space Invaders,’ they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You’re going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.”
“My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you’d be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.”
“If ‘Castlevania’ wasn’t created next to me, and Capcom didn’t release ‘Ghouls n’ Goblins,’ then maybe there wouldn’t be any ‘Metal Gear,’ and I would have created a horror action game, because I really like that genre.”
“I believe the game should really feel what the players are feeling and change according to that.”
“When I was a child, there really weren’t very many video games, but I do have memories of ‘Pong.’ Maybe it was ‘Pong.’ It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn’t the real ‘Pong.’ It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to ‘Pong.’”
“Dark Souls is in some ways an incomplete game, and I like to think that it has been completed by players, by their discoveries, as they moved along. I’d love to say that the nature of this incompleteness was completely deliberate, but it is both deliberate and by accident in different ways.”
“The main concept of ‘Dark Souls III’ is the first flame and its successors; the world has been in this cycle of reigniting the flame since the first game, but now it seems to be disappearing, almost dying. We’re trying to draw out the aspects of this withering flame.”
“Overcoming challenges by learning something in a game is a very rewarding feeling, and that’s what I wanted to prioritise in ‘Dark Souls’ and ‘Demon’s Souls.’”
“There was a board game called ‘Sorcery,’ which is one of my favorites, and I would often revisit the game. It’s not a video game, but it definitely stands out in my mind as a game that impacted me.”
“It’s quite obvious that the ‘Dark Souls’ franchise is reaching a turning point, and I’m happy that I have a greater budget for the third game, as well as the creative freedom to make my own decisions. But if there were some restrictions about what I was creating, I definitely wouldn’t want to work on it.”
“I would like ‘Dark Souls’ to be a broad exploration game filled with so many veiled things and details.”
“If the number of easy games is increasing nowadays, I guess it is because difficulty is not related to interesting and worthwhile game elements in many games among players.”
“I am conscious of that when I make these games: I try to make a game that has beautiful open spaces, gaps, room for players to enjoy it in ways that were not authored. I never want it to be where you have to follow the rules completely, where you have to do things exactly as the designers intended.”
“I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won’t stop playing the game.”
“Whenever you go into a game, you want to win, and you want to come out victorious in any way.”
“As long as I still love the game and I can contribute to a team, I’d love to keep playing.”
“Whenever you step on the ice, you need to be a student of the game and try to hone your craft. You’re never going to play a perfect match, but you’re always chasing that perfect game.”
“Scoring two goals to win a game will hurt an opponent more than a punch in the face.”
“I hope one day I will be able to play in a game in the NHL, not just practice.”
“I don’t think any game means less than the other ones. You always want to win.”
“There’s a difference between fair game and playing games.”
“Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe.”
“This whole game of hit and flops will always be there and I have survived because I am hit. I think industry works on hit and flop.”
“I let bygones be bygones, and guys, ‘BB’ game is over now.”
“’Bigg Boss’ is a game show, and everyone plays their game.”
“When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.”
“The Internet is a game changer. I’m hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge.”
“The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They’re hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.”
“To see a player dunk in women’s college basketball is just amazing. It’s great to see that the game has reached that level now.”
“I’m a football fan in general. I’m always pulling for a good game.”
“The farmer doesn’t care for the pitchers’ battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.”
“Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won’t come out as one.”
“Love is a game in which one always cheats.”
“I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome – it didn’t just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.”
“I wear my dad’s cross. It’s very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.”
“I’m aware that I have a career. But, if I was the hottest in the game, songs all over the radio – let’s say whoever produced made me super big. Like, that would be cool, but there would be something in me that goes, ‘You only wrote the raps. You didn’t make the beats. You didn’t direct. You didn’t do all that.’”
“After all, is football a game or a religion?”
“A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future – and more – that enlists the participants as ‘first-person forecasters.’”
“When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.”
“If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.”
“If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.”
“The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.”
“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.”
“I’ve played a Nintendo Wii. I don’t see it as a competitor. It’s more of an expensive niche game device. We’re selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it’s still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.”
“Managers are obsessed with the game. It’s very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.”
“The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.”
“If I’m a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?”
“Some version of ‘Deal or No Deal’ airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it’s the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.”
“I’m so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.”
“Every game that you lose it hurts, but especially when you lead 2-1, and you lose 4-2.”
“Since my professional debut, I’ve always had a risky game.”
“It’s important to take every game seriously, whatever the competition is.”
“To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.”
“A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.”
“Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.”
“Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan – and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.”
“Whether we’re stuffing our faces with Kogi tacos or playing a pickup game of football outside the stages, there’s never a shortage of fun behind the scenes on ‘Murder In The First.’”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.”
“I think I’m unique to the game ’cause of my versatility.”
“I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.”
“Sports without music, it’s nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.”
“Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.”
“I’ve got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain’t going nowhere. I’m going to die with that in my casket.”
“I’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.”
“When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.”
“I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.”
“For me, I pride myself on every aspect of the game.”
“I love mobile gaming. I love being able to take everything with me. If I start a game on my Wii U, say, I want to be able to pick it up on my DS and take it with me when I’m traveling.”
“If I look back, I can feel proud of the things I’ve won in the game, of everything I have achieved. I would like to say thank you to the fans.”
“Opening the Pandora’s box of tariffs will be an endless game, and it will be a lose-lose proposition.”
“My job is to pay attention to the feel of the game and always add a positive energy to it on my team through the ups and downs of the game.”
“Usually, if I do a good job in the plus/minus category, I know I’ve had a good game.”
“Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.”
“I don’t want to retire – I love the game and have a lot of respect and passion for the game.”
“Leg spinners can change the game.”
“If I want to hide myself from my limitations, then I don’t want to play this game.”
“When you always walk into the middle with green and gold, I just want to take 10 wickets every game.”
“I always dreamt that, but I never thought I will be here one day playing my 100th game for South Africa. It’s an absolute honour and privilege, being given the opportunity by the lovely people from South Africa.”
“There is always a pressure if you play every game and especially when you are representing your country.”
“Playing for South Africa is an absolute honour, and I don’t feel like I need to relax. Every game I take more than seriously.”
“In T20, there’s a time shortage because you’ve got four overs. In one-day cricket, you relax, and the game goes long, and you only win the game in the last 10 or 15 overs.”
“Any spinner can change the game. It’s been proven in T20 cricket.”
“Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.”
“Cricket is a team game. No individual can just say he can win it on his own.”
“The pressure of an India-Pakistan game is immense.”
“I’ve read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who’s playing has read the poker books. I feel like I’m knowledgeable enough to understand what’s going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I’m not sure if I’ll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don’t suck.”
“’At Random’ ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I’d finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.”
“The thing about ‘Game of Thrones’ is it doesn’t pin too much of a focus on magic. It kind of paints it in the same way that mystical things are portrayed in our world, because you don’t walk about Westeros and see wizards with staffs or magical wands. All the characters don’t really believe in it. It’s this mysterious hidden vein to Westeros.”
“One of my first days shooting on ‘Game of Thrones’ was possibly the coldest day I’ve ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I’d never, ever done anything before.”
“’Game of Thrones’ isn’t all about magic – it’s way more about political scheming and family tensions – but to be a part of this exclusive magic club is actually really cool.”
“Most people are dispensable in ‘Game of Thrones,’ not only in the story but in the series.”
“The fans of ‘Game of Thrones’ are dedicated. It’s really nice to talk to them, why they love the show and what it means to them. It’s a real pleasure.”
“You can learn something from everyone in ‘Game of Thrones,’ whether it is something you learn not to do or something you learn to do.”
“My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game.”
“You have to develop your whole game to completion.”
“I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what’s going on in the game.”
“Each game helps me to continue improving, which is what I want. I want to improve in defense, on the ball, score more goals. I never want to get tired of improving.”
“We know that if you have a good game, you are God, and if you misplace five passes in a row, they want to kick you out of Madrid. You have to find the middle ground.”
“It’s true that at Malaga, I played every game as a starter, but here at Madrid, they give nothing away.”
“I grew up in Mississippi, and there’s no fashion game there. Even in ‘Bling Ring,’ I had to learn a lot about fashion – you know, the differences between lapels – and it wasn’t until we’d wrapped that I really started getting into it.”
“But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.”
“Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can’t wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don’t take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.”
“In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you’ll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you’re just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.”
“Writers aren’t in competition with one another. It isn’t a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.”
“We didn’t have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.”
“As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you’re around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don’t just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.”
“I love Bad Bunny. He’s changing the game. I think he’s doing something very important with his success.”
“I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place – reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.”
“For longer than I’ve been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.”
“I’ve got two Rolexes that I’m very proud of – a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I’m trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.”
“There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I’m talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I’m in that day.”
“It’s a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It’s just something you have to do.”
“I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it’s hard to control the game.”
“I just go out there every game and try to be the best I can be for our team.”
“Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game… I still love it to this day.”
“Baseball, boxing, handball – sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.”
“Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity – the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, ‘Field of Dreams’, the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it’s a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.”
“My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.”
“My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that’s not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.”
“I’ve been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That’s one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.”
“I’ve gone on streaks where I haven’t shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn’t as big. It’s just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.”
“The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game – in hospitals, homes, prisons – those who have seldom seen a game, who can’t travel to a game, those who are blind.”
“I need to vary up my game, and I’m working on that. I know I need to get better.”
“You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.”
“Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.”
“Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game’s two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.”
“Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.”
“The game is meant to be fun.”
“There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.”
“I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I’ve got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn’t ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.”
“Golf is a better game played downhill.”
“This is a game. That’s all it is. It’s not a war.”
“See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.”
“I’ve wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I’ve played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I’ve always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.”
“My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!”
“I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches – Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.”
“I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.”
“The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball’s not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it’s contagious.”
“The player I look up to is Rio Ferdinand. I have always played at the back, and I’ve always tried to base my game on his.”
“I am happy at Everton, and I can’t do anything else other than concentrate on my own game.”
“I’m just going to give my all every game, be a good box-to-box midfielder, hopefully score some goals, and I will always give it 100 per cent.”
“Democrats, more often than not, do not play the game of politics correctly.”
“Nothing goes through your head when you’re playing except who you are playing against and what you can do to affect the game.”
“If I’m on the bench in a Premier League game, I’m thinking, ‘What can I do coming off the bench?’”
“Once I’m at the training ground, I’m focused, preparing for the next game.”
“I’m not just a footballer; I’m a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.”
“Some players have got their price, but, to be honest, that’s not the way I look at the game.”
“The emotions of the game do not change.”
“Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.”
“The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.”
“When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.”
“How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.”
“Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn’t something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.”
“When I say artist I mean the man who is building things – creating molding the earth – whether it be the plains of the west – or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction – some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen.”
“I hadn’t watched ‘Lord of the Rings’ – I’m gonna get so much flack for this, but I hadn’t watched ‘Lord of the Rings’ when I started watching ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“This is going to sound like a lie, but the ‘Game of Thrones’ set is so good to work on. I’ve been a part of plays and other projects where egos get in the way and there are constant fallings out. There’s none of that there.”
“I really love being in ‘Game of Thrones,’ but I don’t know if it’s my big break.”
“You’ve got to play every game until it’s over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what’s going to happen.”
“My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.”
“I would say I stay pretty calm. Don’t let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don’t show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.”
“You never want to see a guy struggle. And we’ve all struggled. It’s part of the game.”
“The control game has just been changed. The artist has a lot more control than the label, which is special. I feel like the fans crave that. I feel like they can tell when it’s not genuine.”
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.”
“Thinking has become a superfluous exercise… purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.”
“Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it’s a video game, and it’s not. It is very, very dangerous, and it’s tough.”
“The reason why the entire world sits up and watches World Cup football is the intensity of involvement with which people are playing a game: just kicking a ball around, but with such skill and involvement that it is like the last thing they are going to do in their life.”
“Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.”
“There is a tremendous amount of pressure when you are a world No. 1 with everyone behind you trying to knock you down. But I always believe you should be enjoying the pressure at the top. It is a case of being able to relax and keep playing the game that got you there in the first place.”
“I get that every game. High school. At Duke. When I do the introductions, I get a little butterflies. Once I step on the floor, I’m fine.”
“In college, when you lose one game as a top team, it’s like the end of the world.”
“I’m just trying to get better each game.”
“I didn’t think I was going to be doubled my first NBA game. I knew it would happen eventually, but I got off to a hot start, so as a result, I got double-teamed.”
“Around sixth or seventh grade, I fell in love with Tim Duncan and his all-around game. That’s when I started watching him. Then my father introduced me to Hakeem Olajuwon. Those were the two guys I modeled my game after.”
“Every game is going to be different.”
“When you have a dominant big man, that changes the aspects of the game.”
“Ever since third grade – I never even noticed it until after the game – people were telling me how crazy my dad is. I think I’m so locked in when I’m playing on the floor, I only hear him maybe during timeouts or when we’re up 20 or 30 and I’m on the bench. But when I’m in the game, I don’t hear him.”
“I’m definitely not the caliber player that LeBron is, but I find it funny how people can criticize him and the way he plays the game. So it’s pretty easy to criticize me if they are still able to criticize LeBron.”
“I just think that playing in a championship game and playing in every game in March Madness, that’s just more time for critics to watch you and more time for them to nitpick at what you don’t do well or what they feel you don’t do well.”
“I always knew I wanted to be in the NBA and play myself in a video game. That was my goal when I was a kid.”
“I’ve been working on all my aspects of my game.”
“There’s so many things running through your mind. If you can formulate a game plan that works for you and allows you to block outside distractions and get to what matters, that’s how the talent is able to come out.”
“You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.”
“I’m not saying I won’t make a mistake throughout the game.”
“I care about the integrity of the game.”
“You want to be the team that is on the field when the last out is made on the winning side. That’s obviously the holy grail in the game that I play, and that’s what every player strives for.”
“Really being able to harness my mental approach has kind of taken me to the next level, and obviously maturing as a player and a teammate and as a person. Those are things that are necessary to achieve success in this game. There’s no other way around it.”
“Just having two kids now, regardless of what happens in the field, they’re there to receive you with open arms every night after every game.”
“Unfortunately, the business side of the game shows its head every once in a while. But I still think there’s opportunity and chances that we can have good conversations as far as an extension’s concerned.”
“You know, I’ll tell you, nothing changed after ‘No Strings’ for me. A lot of people said, like, ‘Your game will be different,’ but it wasn’t. It really wasn’t.”
“I can say this: I’m not going to be some guy hanging around and trying to make every last dime in this game. I mean, I’m really going to let the game just decide it for me.”
“I love the game of basketball. I love being able to work every day. I love being able to watch film, be a student of the game. It may not show emotionally, but I just love that I’m able to do this.”
“Every game’s a big game.”
“I think every player who truly loves basketball wants to be in the game at all times.”
“You gotta play every game like your last.”
“I knew becoming an analyst would allow me to see the game from a new perspective.”
“Kobe was obsessed with the game of basketball.”
“I left my mark in the college game, and I’m definitely happy about that.”
“My father, Jimmy Walker, was the first pick in the 1967 draft, but I never met him. He passed in 2007. I found out about him in middle school. I was old enough to understand who he was, where he went to college, and what his game was about. Older players like Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have come up to me to talk about him.”
“The idea of playing the point and leading a team to the NBA championship is what drove me to get up every day and work on my game as a kid.”
“People don’t realize this, but throughout my career, I grew up patterning my game after Scottie Pippen’s. I admire him for his versatility.”
“There’s simply no excuse not do a game about ‘Blair Witch,’ which has everything from the time-dimensional shifting to being chased through the woods. Kind of like the VR website experience where the woods shift whenever you turn.”
“Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.”
“Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.”
“Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.”
“I’ve played in Test matches before after injury without first playing a county game or warm-up of some sort.”
“I know my game really well and I’m relatively comfortable in most situations.”
“I remember playing a Twenty20 game in Australia in 2007 and Matthew Hayden smacked one back at me. My head goes down as I follow through and as I looked up I just saw this white flash pass about an inch from the side of my head. If it had been a touch straighter I would not have had time to react and who knows what could have happened.”
“I love talking about the game and passing on knowledge if I can but being a coach full time is another story.”
“This game’s a lot easier early on in your career because people haven’t seen you play. Things got a lot harder when people saw what I did with the ball and began to think about how to bat against me.”
“If someone says something to me, I am not going to back down. Whether it’s defending myself or standing up for one of my teammates, that is the way I play the game.”
“’Alice’ is effectively a story about a game of cards. ‘Through the Looking Glass’ is a story of chess.”
“Some comments are within bounds, while some are not. But by whining about every little barb, candidates are trying to win the election through a war of staff resignation attrition, and Americans are losing the ability to distinguish between what is fair game and what is not.”
“What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.”
“I’ve been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-’70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in ’77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.”
“This year I’ve just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that’s what’s making me be so successful.”
“If you go to a Liberty game, they’re fun basketball games to go to. But I’ll be damned if I know how to get people to go to those games.”
“We are honored to host the greatest players in the NBA in the newly transformed World’s Most Famous Arena for the 2015 All-Star Game. Over its 134-year history, Madison Square Garden has been privileged to host some of sports most defining and enduring moments and we are thrilled to add this prestigious event to The Garden’s illustrious history.”
“There’s no game I come to where I say, ‘We can’t win this game.’ That’s important.”
“John Davidson is one of the premier executives in the National Hockey League. As we continue to build a team that can consistently compete for the Stanley Cup, John’s knowledge of the game and his experience and passion for the Rangers logo make him the ideal choice to oversee our Hockey Operations department.”
“Never read bad stuff if you’re an artist; it will impair your own game.”
“Coming on as a sub, it’s always different – you never know what the game is going to be like.”
“In the Premier League, you don’t have one second to breathe – you have to be on it from the first minute. If you lose focus – just for a few seconds – the game will pass you by. It’s 100 miles an hour.”
“The reason I’m in good form is not just down to myself: it’s down to the manager and coaching staff improving my game.”
“Playing in the Championship and starting games, I’m learning something new every day and constantly improving my game.”
“I go into each game with the same mindset of showing people what I can do and letting the rest take care of itself.”
“I’m always a player who has taken fairly rough treatment, to be honest. I think my time in Scotland typified that because I think there was one game where I set a record for being fouled ten or 11 times in a game.”
“For me, if you play at Anfield, it is not a tactical game.”
“You can look at every game, some where I’ve been a defensive player and others where I’ve had an impact.”
“I never really got that chance at Manchester City and developed into a utility player. Playing in all the positions has made me a better player because it’s not easy to do that. Understanding the game has made me a more rounded player as well.”
“The pace of the game has changed even while I’ve been a player. It always seems to be getting quicker. You need to be fast, quick to get around the park, need to be able to press and defend and get in peoples’ faces, and you need quality on the ball.”
“I could lose every Old Firm game I go into and still win the league.”
“I set higher standards than anyone and don’t need anyone to tell me when I’ve played badly or not had a good game.”
“When Andy Kaufman performed, he was not just trying to be funny. He was playing with the notion of what it means to try to be funny, of what it means to be an audience expecting somebody to be funny. He was doing a dance and playing a game.”
“If you compare the violence in ‘Happy Valley’ to the violence in something like ‘Game of Thrones,’ it’s nothing. But it is shocking because it’s so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you – they’re not in a remote fantasy world.”
“There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”
“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.”
“I love this idea of expanding the game universe. It has been limited. I guess probably because the genre was so successful, and the people who were creating those games made so much money at it they just had no desire to sort of open it up.”
“I’m a sports fanatic. It’s hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that’s what I do.”
“I can watch SportsCenter on a loop, like, five times in a row until my girlfriend is like, ‘Seriously? It’s the same highlights!’ It just brings me peace, I think. Any kind of game – college basketball, college football, obviously anything pro.”
“The fans want a nice game, and when not everything goes so well, they have every right to boo.”
“The game in Spain is more about technique and about getting more touches on the ball. That’s why I like it so much.”
“The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It’s fast and powerful – games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It’s easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features – the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on.”
“I don’t really watch a load of ‘Game Of Thrones.’”
“My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don’t think I ever met a poker player I didn’t fundamentally like – even if they’re screaming and they’re acting like real jerks.”
“You can practice against each other, but there’s something about a game situation.”
“It’s somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained… so long as it’s not something you have to do every game.”
“I’ve pitched too many innings and pitched too many years – one game doesn’t make or break my career.”
“But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.”
“I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.”
“I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I’ve been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.”
“After a Saturday game, we’re in on a Sunday to cool down and make sure we’re fully back at it again. But it doesn’t really affect things too much. It’s basically like you’ve had a game on the Saturday, and then you’re in the cup on a Tuesday.”
“We’re not interested in bombarding our users with, ‘Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.’ It gets annoying, it gets in the way of messaging, and it gets in the way of staying in touch with people who are important to you.”
“The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.”
“If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.”
“Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.”
“I’d really love to work with virtual reality at some point. You could make a killer adventure game with that.”
“There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it’s really not true anymore.”
“Story may not be a great addition to some games – games where action is the whole reason for the game to exist.”
“I would say I’m a storyteller first, but game making is very wrapped up in how I think of story. If I were to have a story idea, and I decided to write a novel with it instead, I’d have to very consciously de-couple it from gamedom – for example, deliberately add in things that could not be represented in a game scene.”
“I think the mainstream gaming industry has a very narrow focus on the young male audience. There are plenty of other people out there who enjoy playing games, but if you walk into most game stores, there’s nothing on the shelf for them. I mean, imagine if you could only buy cheeseburgers and nothing but cheeseburgers in every restaurant?”
“At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike’s grandson, who was promoting his book ‘Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,’ in which he describes attending the Yankees’ 154th game in 1961. The whole family had been following Mantle and Maris chase Babe Ruth’s home run record across the country.”
“Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 – the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable.”
“On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began.”
“If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.”
“Game designers are obsessed with emotion. How do we create the emotions that we want gamers to feel, and how can we really make it this intense, emotional experience?”
“Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can’t we?”
“There’s no reason why the ‘Lost’ alternate reality game had to be officially made by the ‘Lost’ production crew.”
“When we’re in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment’s notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.”
“I’m always thinking about whatever game I’m working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I’m awake.”
“I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.”
“When parents or gamers ask me, ‘What’s the best game to play?’ I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online.”
“Game developers know that people have more fun when they’re in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.”
“The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping or achievements, so you get achievements for coming to a store or purchasing things, like rewarding activities.”
“’Superbetter’ looks more like a social media platform or a social network than a typical video game. You know, there aren’t any 3-d spaces to explore. You don’t have this avatar that you’re building up. It’s more about thinking like a gamer.”
“I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can’t blame lawyers anymore for the ‘liability’ vs. common sense imbalance.”
“I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave.”
“One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game, had an old baseball card of his from the 1950s and told us his amazing story of courage in integrating baseball.”
“We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it’s totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.”
“You can’t give up in any game, even if you are losing.”
“The players don’t play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You’re getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don’t have the puck on your stick.”
“Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.”
“Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It’s a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.”
“One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.”
“An important part of any good mystery story like ‘Original Sin’ is that it’s not just a game of ‘Clue’ with surprise after surprise after surprise, but the goal is to tell a story in the midst of that. Even once you know the solution to the mysteries, it’s far from the whole story.”
“I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn’t want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!”
“In the game of football, you can never be too sure of anything.”
“When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.”
“I’m getting better and better each year that I’m playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient – something that is key to our game.”
“As I get older, my body isn’t bulletproof, and it’s starting to break down. And I’m still young, so it’s something that I have to maintain, something that I have to work extra, extra hard, just as hard as my golf game, I have to work on my body as well.”
“Rest is huge because if you’re sleep-deprived, that can definitely run into the mental side of the game and can definitely hurt your game if you’re playing tournament golf.”
“I’ve never been more motivated to be No. 1 in the world. I’ve never been more motivated to try to extend that lead from one to two. All the hard work that I’ve put into my game right now has paid off, but I’ve got to keep working hard to win as much as I can.”
“You could have all the tools in the world, but if you really don’t want to be there, or if there’s something that’s off course that’s playing on your mind… the game of golf is so mental, and if you don’t have everything in the right order, it’s very difficult to win golf tournaments.”
“I want to be able to be looked back on and know that he was one of the greats in the game.”
“When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it’s game over for everyone else.”
“Golf is a very, very frustrating game.”
“What I’m doing with my body and with my golf game, I’m trying to extend the longevity of my career.”
“I used to game a lot, and I used to game a little too hard.”
“I have the opportunity to do that right now, to try to work as hard as I can to really leave my footprint in this game that has given me so much.”
“It’s emotional highs and lows in the game of golf.”
“I began acting at age eight, but if you don’t stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it’s a little easy to get comfortable, so I’m trying to get back on it. I’m taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I’m just trying to stay up with other actors.”
“The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit – though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today’s conglomerates.”
“I never really gambled – certainly not playing poker. I’d casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.”
“This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you’re not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point – just see it and hit it.”
“I’ve learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.”
“I’m still playing the game, having a great time.”
“Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.”
“It’s very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.”
“You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.”
“I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.”
“I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column – winning. Nothing else matters.”
“There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we’ll be on top after all is said and done.”
“My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.”
“I don’t have tapes of meditation, but I put on the meditation station. I did as a player, too. I used to always play the game before the game happened. As a coach, I do the same thing.”
“Apple has the radio stations, so I go R&B in the morning, and then I’ll go with some hip-hop before the game. But after the game, it’s more meditation music. It’s not artists; it’s more whatever is being played.”
“When you are on the floor, there’s no better feeling than when your teammates are into the game on the bench and are cheering for you and vice versa. When you come out of the game, you are cheering for those guys that are on the floor.”
“I’ve played the game for a long time.”
“I think the big thing with O.J. – I’ve known him since he was in high school – and he’s a great kid, loves the game of basketball.”
“I just want to be in there at the end of the game to try to help the team win. The last six minutes of an NBA game is where you make your name, so hopefully I’m in there trying to help my guys win.”
“Kobe is Kobe. He is one of the best to ever play this game. Given the opportunity, he can embarrass you.”
“My kids are always like, ‘Why do people always want to take pictures with you?’ and I’m like, ‘Because I’m your Dada, and you’re my daughter. That’s why.’ It’s definitely mostly because of ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“Zack Snyder is a huge fan of ‘Game of Thrones,’ and I met him in the training stunt facility that I train at, and I guess he really liked me because he later called me into his office, and we talked about playing Aquaman.”
“’Game of Thrones’ is the greatest thing I’ve ever been a part of.”
“You get a lot of respect for ‘Game of Thrones,’ and it was a lot of fun to play, but it didn’t help my career a lot because Khal Drago doesn’t even speak English.”
“After ‘Game of Thrones,’ having a character like that, that’s like the pinnacle of your career.”
“There’s nothing I’ve ever worked on that beat ‘Game of Thrones’ – that’s a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.”
“Most people don’t know who I am in the industry. I’m far from ‘Conan’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.”
“Talk is cheap; play the game.”
“I’m a vet. I know the game and know how to play the game.”
“Basketball was always my game.”
“I’m going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it’s the end of the game. That’s how I’m going to keep playing.”
“In this game called football, we don’t know who’s going to the playoffs.”
“You’ve just got to have it, man. Like, in this game of football, you can tell when you look at film who’s more passionate about the game.”
“To play this game, you’ve got to have heart, and a lot of guys don’t have it. I can sit here and say we all do, but we all don’t.”
“We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we’ve got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.”
“I’m just god-gifted: I have a talent. Even when I played basketball, no one ever taught me the game. I just played it. And with football, I just converted basketball to football and just played.”
“The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.”
“It’s easy to think of a role-playing game as an amalgamation of two main components, narrative and gameplay, jammed together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes, they fit together nicely; other times, they’re as awkward and frustrating as that one weirdly-shaped ‘Tetris’ block that always falls into the gap where you need an L.”
“Unraveling the threads of a good game story is like solving a well-crafted puzzle. After a lengthy, sometimes difficult journey, the pieces click into place, and you’re rewarded with the satisfying payoff of a job well done.”
“Most game developers in the United States do not receive extra compensation for extra hours.”
“To avoid long-term deleterious effects, game developers must commit to stop facilitating a culture in which crunch is the norm. The occasional long night or weekend at the office can be useful and even exhilarating, but as a constant, it is damaging.”
“There was once a time when ‘Final Fantasy’ meant greatness, when seeing Square’s brand on a game box meant you were about to play something special. That time has long since passed.”
“Between ‘The Godfather,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Goodfellas,’ and the countless other mob stories that have been both critically and commercially acclaimed over the years, it’s not hard to see why a game like ‘Mafia Wars’ works.”
“I think there’s that widespread sentiment that game developers need to be quiet unless they’re talking on-message. I think that’s changing a little bit; Twitter has helped, with developers sharing personal opinions on things.”
“I think the most insidious version of crunch is when you say, ‘Hey, I’m working for this triple-A video game; I personally want it to be as good as possible, so I’m going to stay tonight until 10 P.M. to finish this feature.’”
“Why would it matter to anybody if a game developer talks about a project that they worked on ten years ago that was canceled? It really bums me out to think about how many of those games have been lost to time.”
“Amalur’s user interface is designed much like a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, liberally sprinkling yellow exclamation points and markers all over your mini-map in order to show you where to quest next.”
“One of the successes of Kickstarter is that it takes the guesswork out of greenlighting games. Publishers of larger games have to carefully choose which titles they publish, lest they lose a bunch of money on a quirky game that doesn’t sell. Kickstarter is all reward, no risk, since nobody has to pay if the project isn’t completely funded.”
“Game ideas on Kickstarter have found loads of success, even when they’re not as unusual as ‘BlindSide.’”
“Kickstarter can get customers invested, both literally and figuratively, in a game before it is released. With nothing but an idea, a bit of video and a few screenshots, a developer can start building a loyal fan base.”
“For inexperienced, small developers, getting funding from big game publishers can be a Sisyphean task.”
“It’s impossible to know how ‘fun’ a game will be.”
“I don’t know the first real thing about the dating game. I don’t know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.”
“Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don’t play well, we might as well have lost the game.”
“We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.”
“I used to be a columnist for ‘Golf Monthly’ and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance in the game, which is more than can be said of tennis.”
“Blocking a shot can really demoralize a person and defer them from coming to the rim the rest of the game. So being able to do that and change the landscape of the game by one play is pretty amazing.”
“Usually I’m nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.”
“Before I came to Barcelona, I only thought about one facet of the game: destroying. My qualities were completely defensive, and I wouldn’t take responsibility for organising my team’s game, our attacks.”
“In football, 80% of the game is played in your head; the other 20% is physical and tactical.”
“I don’t go out to enjoy myself: I enjoy myself when I’m learning in training, but I don’t enjoy the 90 minutes I spend out on the pitch during a game.”
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
“Qwiki is a game changer. The team has succeeded in creating an entirely new media format that will drastically improve the web experience.”
“I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish.”
“People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as ‘Winner of a Losing Game’ and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.”
“People have compared me to Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Eminem, and J. Cole. They bring substance and largely are all good storytellers, and those are two of my biggest strengths. It’s dope to be compared to people who have longevity in the game because that’s the most important thing for me: I want my name to live forever.”
“No one can take away what I’ve done in this game. Everything I’ve done, I’ve earned it so far.”
“I’m not a guy that’s going to shoot 10 3s a game – I like to get to the basket. But some of those shots I do gotta take. Some of those shots I gotta let fly.”
“I’m overly confident. I believe in myself 100 percent. I believe in my game, and I believe in my work ethic.”
“I’m just trying to establish myself, play the game the right way with my teammates, have fun, make the right plays, and get adjusted to the pro game. It’s different from college. It’s a little bit faster, so I’m just trying to get as comfortable as I can on the court.”
“I love Coach K’s passion to coach his players and to coach the game. I examined and watched the interaction between him and his staff, along with the players, and was impressed how hard they played.”
“That’s what I am trying to be, just trying to affect the game any way possible, rebounding, getting a block, or trying to get a stop even when your shot isn’t falling, because, at the end of the day, all that matters is whether you win or lose.”
“I used to watch LeBron on TV growing up, and now I’m playing my first game against him.”
“I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, ‘We need you here with us in L.A.’”
“I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”
“I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays and the music – it’s done; the material is there. But we talk about it because it’s part of the game. I’m comfortable with it.”
“I like to play with architecture! It’s my favorite game.”
“Children’s games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules – that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.”
“There’s a general feeling if you take the cut block out of the game, then you’re going to significantly impact the run game.”
“You address the respect issue in a team-meeting environment. With respect to its application, it’s not just locker room. It’s practice field. It’s on and off the field. It’s on Sunday, and it’s on game days.”
“Having grown up there, my dad in 1967 took me to the Rams-Eagles game, and I’ve been a Rams fan since I was a kid.”
“I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I’m now officially in that genre.”
“There are times when I’m watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.”
“So you wake up this morning and find you’re president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.”
“I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.”
“When WWF and WCW came along, they weren’t the only game in town, but to make a good living, you had to work for one of the two organizations. Without a true Number Two, there is no such thing as a Number One. You’re just it; you’re just there.”
“Basketball was my first love. I still love the game of basketball.”
“Our product, our brand of wrestling fits a videogame better than any other form of wrestling. From our X-Division to our signature matches, just the whole gaming nation, a whole generation of people out there are going to experience TNA for the first time, so we’re really looking to do some creative, innovative things with our game.”
“I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don’t like that. Because once you know where you’re going as an audience member, then it’s like a video game. You’re just waiting for them to get through the levels and beat the bad guy. And I just think that’s boring.”
“I broadcast games. I think there is a huge difference between print journalism and broadcasting. I don’t have to say, ‘sources close to LeBron James,’ five times a game. I can just put my name to it. I say what I believe. It doesn’t mean it’s right. It’s what I believe.”
“I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest… The game – if those guys actually played hard in that game, it’d be the best watch ever.”
“Why is UCLA and Georgia Tech in China to play a basketball game? Missing all that school, and then force-feeding their fans the idea of ‘student-athletes.’”
“All the fascination with numbers conspires to make you forget the beauty of the game sometimes.”
“I think the beautiful part about Yao is that his main legacy won’t be about the game. His legacy will be about helping people. His legacy will be taking on important world causes to better his world.”
“People talk about Kobe’s 81-point game, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history. I saw the game. I don’t care if it was 79, 81 – I just remember the game. I remember the moves. I remember the shots. I remember the beauty of it. The numbers? What he shot from the field? I don’t care.”
“Manu Ginobili – I like to watch him. I would pay to watch him play the game. He will try things that will drive a coach crazy, like a full-court bounce pass, but he has such a flair for the game. I love his energy and his spirit and his unpredictability.”
“You can’t hold up in a FIBA game if you don’t have great competitive spirit.”
“Do not be intimidated. Go where the story goes. Report the facts. Make sure you’ve got it right. And don’t let things that the president says or that the White House does throw you off your game.”
“I really do believe that no one is too pious to fall or too far gone to be redeemed in some way. Jaime Lannister on ‘Game of Thrones’ did terrible things, and now I feel so bad for him because his sister won’t kiss him. Isn’t that weird? Does she not love him? He lost a hand! It kills me that I care.”
“You know, in this industry, being an openly queer actor or entertainer, you can play the game your way, or you can play it the industry’s way. And I decided to play it my way. I played it the industry’s way far too long.”
“If it’s football season, all things sort of stop. I’m from Seattle, so I’ll watch the Seahawks and whatever other game that day is worthy.”
“What we do at the end of every season – which is why it’s probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor’s locker room after the final game – we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.”
“When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you’ve inherited a troubled franchise.”
“I’ve never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’”
“This is part of what makes me, ahem, an excellent houseguest: I’m game. I’m flexible. I’ll make you feel okay about eating an entire chocolate cake in one sitting because I’m right there by your side with my own fork.”
“I have a wild game camera.”
“’Survivor’ is a game that’s designed to be played with strangers, people with varied backgrounds from all parts of the country. The greatest part is that you can go into the game as anyone you want, hold any job you desire, and portray any personality you can think of.”
“In the game of ‘Survivor,’ there is no time for regrets.”
“I really like Dontrelle Willis’ pitch; he’s animated on the mound and is fun to watch – he gets into the game emotionally.”
“Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game – loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren’t true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.”
“There’s never been a game plan, and I suppose I’ve had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time – I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.”
“What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I’m playing solitaire.”
“On a Bioware game, if I say anything that’s not on the page, It would create a bug in the system, and it would kick back, and I would have to do it again due the technical demands they deal with.”
“It might sound so stupid, but guys do not hit on me. I’m not really sure why, but it’s very rare that a guy will ever come up to me and be like, ‘I’m going to lay down my game right now, and you’re going to like it.’”
“There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.”
“Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.”
“A lot of Democrats like to play the ‘If we were Republicans’ game. I usually hate it; I don’t want to behave like the Republicans do.”
“I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.”
“I try to be measured and thoughtful about what I put out there because I know a lot of young people follow me on Twitter, and I take that seriously – which is why I don’t exclusively tweet about cookies and ‘Game of Thrones’ and YA.”
“I rarely tweet unless I’m talking about ‘The Bachelor.’ I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though – it’s like a rigid parent. It’s much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video – it changes the game a little bit.”
“Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.”
“We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to create a game that’s serene and tranquil and filled with love.”
“Look at the genres women like: a romantic comedy game doesn’t exist. Few examples of a documentary game exist. What is the equivalent of a real drama game? They don’t exist. Emotion with that complexity for a more mature, older audience are necessary to make medium-like video games healthy so it can be highly respected like the film industry.”
“I’m a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.”
“The struggle we went through in the last year of ‘Journey’ was pretty insane, and I think that is also why, when I was working on the struggle level, I was able to channel my own struggle into the game.”
“If a game is meant to be played by everybody, it deserves to be on multiple platforms so everybody can play it.”
“I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.”
“When we approach games, we’re always emotional-focused, so if a free-to-play business model works against the emotion, we won’t use it. If it actually works well with the emotion, or if we can come up with a new way to do monetization that’s different and that’s unique for the game, I would go for that.”
“I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a video game that people around the globe can enjoy and relate to, I can’t draw things deeply rooted in the local culture that I’m not familiar with. That’s why we are not doing games about football or samurai.”
“I feel, as a game maker, we are responsible to make content that stretch the ruling structure and emotions so that everyone can enjoy.”
“Designing a game can be like a Japanese garden. It’s not what you put in but how much you take away.”
“What I can offer the game is creating a sound that, when you hear it, you know it’s mine.”
“Then there’s going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I’m going back to film it next week. It’s a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet.”
“So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.”
“I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don’t feel my game resembles his though.”
“I think I’ve always been a player who’s done better in the second half, who’s done better in the fourth quarter. That’s the fun time to play, when everything you’ve worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.”
“I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I’m not going to do anything that’s extra flashy or freakishly athletic.”
“You’ve gotta play the Hollywood game, and you know you’re doing good the more notoriety you’re getting, and that’s gold. That’s what every actor wants because then you know you’re at another level.”
“I’m not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.”
“Something that ‘Game of Thrones’ always does successfully is that action sequences are never just action sequences. There’s always a point of view, and you’re always identifying with one person or one group of people.”
“There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn’t recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.”
“I knew I could play really well in one game, score the winning goal and then, come the next game, I wouldn’t play at all or I might come off the bench for the last five minutes. So I was frustrated towards the end of my time at Spurs. I wasn’t happy.”
“I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn’t be getting racially abused; it’s silly.”
“So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.”
“Because I was in Atlanta, people didn’t realize I’m one of the real forefathers in the game.”
“I have to open the game from my position. It’s really important to play with the ball.”
“It is not a normal game when you play against your brother.”
“I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.”
“We can only stop Cristiano Ronaldo as a team. In front of goal, he’s like a machine. You can’t shut him out completely; he always gets his chances in a game because of the lines he runs and his excellent timing.”
“I try every day to become a better player – passing more to open the game – I try everything because you can always be better.”
“I have improved both feet for my passing game as well as in the vertical play into attack, whether that be low balls or longer balls.”
“When you’re in something like ‘Game of Thrones’ and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it’s wonderful.”
“The question of many college quarterbacks is can they operate in the pro game, in the pro system. Can they not only function under the early, especially with our game, but can they do it efficiently?”
“When the game is over it is really just beginning.”
“Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.”
“Don’t write us off. Nobody thought we’d win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we’re great, and we’re bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can’t figure it out.”
“They’d have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-ticket holders have to be in a lottery to see if they get tickets, and then they don’t get a good ticket. Really, no good can come out of it, and all it can do is upset your fans.”
“To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.”
“I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.”
“I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.”
“The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I’m actually busier right now than when I played football. This is almost like I’m coming back out of retirement. It will be fun to see myself in the game.”
“During the offseason, I didn’t take any time off. And I played this game for over 20 years. So right after the season, I would go right back into my regimen.”
“Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.”
“Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.”
“Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.”
“Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.”
“I’ve been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.”
“When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.”
“The league is changing, and we don’t have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game that requires skill and versatility. A lot of that is about being able to think. It makes all the difference in the world to have a player in there with a high basketball IQ who can make the right decision.”
“Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don’t think you can, you won’t.”
“Some guys lay their fannies out there every night – they play the game at such a high level, and they give so much that, frankly, they don’t get credit for it. And I think it’s tragic sometimes.”
“I know when I left the game, I could have played more. There is no question. I think I could have played at a very high level, too. But I could not play the way everyone wanted me to play. And I was not willing to compromise what I felt was a standard that I had established in this league and, particularly, for our fans at home.”
“You have to win games by scoring points, of course, so that’s important. But when you’re having nights against a good defensive team, you have to win in a different manner. You have to win a defensive-type game.”
“If you’re not in the game to win, you shouldn’t be in the game.”
“When I graduated college, I remember all I really wanted was to make enough money to have a swimming pool, because I love to swim, to grow my own fruit. I wanted to have a little plot where I could grow my own oranges and make enough money where I could to take two weeks off a year. I figured if I had that, it was game over.”
“Every game, you’ve got to play with no fear.”
“I’m the type of guy that’s always having a joke, messing around, but when it comes to the serious stuff, you know, your head’s on the game.”
“The mentality of wanting to win has come into my game more.”
“I want to play every game, obviously.”
“Ryan Giggs pretty much won everything there is to win in the game. He made over 900 appearances for the club and always stayed loyal to Manchester United, which is really impressive.”
“I think confidence plays a massive part. If you go into a game confident, you will try things, and they will come off.”
“I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, ‘Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.’”
“’Game of Thrones’ is great. Love it.”
“We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?”
“I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the ‘Gamepocalypse:’ the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.”
“One of the main things that’s appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It’s an unusual game that’s impossible to win.”
“I have a center at 412 West Chicago Avenue. It’s called the Jesse White Community Center and Fieldhouse. It’s a state-of-the-art gymnastics facility, game room, weight room, computer lab.”
“It’s never bad to be liked, and who doesn’t feel good being liked, but that can’t be your end game goal.”
“I have a T-shirt that says Game of Stones, which has the Flintstones dressed as ‘Game of Thrones’ characters on it.”
“What I’m known for – ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Star Wars’ – they film in England, but they’re American productions. Because American productions are willing to see Asian actors.”
“It was definitely a big boost when I went into Australia. That’s what really got my recognition going. I started scoring. I started feeling a little bit better each game.”
“The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that’s happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.”
“I thought, ‘Maybe if I become a cheerleader, I can meet managers or agents. Maybe I can sing the national anthem at a game, and someone in the industry will hear me.’ I saw everything as an opportunity to further my music. I was literally the cheerleader who had a mixtape in between her pom-poms at events.”
“Football is a team game, and I just want to function as part of the team.”
“I think pressure is great; it can make the game more exciting and force us to play our best.”
“It’s good to have different ways to break opponents down, and speed is a big part of my game.”
“I hope that one day I will be able to play with City at the Sanchez Pizjuan in a Champions League game; it would be an incredible experience.”
“It was incredible to play in the Premier League, somewhere I always wanted to go because of the speed and the pace of the game.”
“At the start of every game, you are focussed on the game you are playing, so you don’t look back at previous games.”
“You have to fight till the last minute of the last game if you want to win it.”
“I’m going to a great club in England, and I want to continue developing my game there. The club has put a lot of faith in me, and I want to repay them out on the pitch.”
“Things are never easy against whoever you play, which is why every game you have to be totally at it, on your mettle, and totally focused and concentrated.”
“I’ve had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I’m game. I’m game for that kind of thing. I’m certainly not too vain in that respect. If it’s a great role, I’m willing to do whatever it is that it takes.”
“Ever since the decision of Robin Thicke and Pharrell, we believe that it was important to make sure that we are safe. When that Robin Thicke verdict came out, we realized that the game had changed in music.”
“One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats… I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That’s how I got into music production.”
“First of all, I respect The Game. He’s trail-blazed for artists like myself. I appreciate him, having – living in L.A. myself and knowing what he stands for and what he stood for.”
“My own personal opinion is putting three finals in one day isn’t supporting the women’s game.”
“Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.”
“We need people in the game to be honest, to call things as they are.”
“From my perception, listen: the game is different on turf, but it’s the same for everybody.”
“If we’re looking at the pure development of our game, the challenge is not to have a 200-cap player because that means there is something better that is coming along.”
“The challenge for young players is always stepping into the next level in terms of how much faster the game is.”
“I just love the sport, love the game.”
“You can’t just live cautiously, I think, when you’re in a knockout game.”
“Every game you play, you gain. There’s always valuable lessons.”
“When you weigh putting a player in with 10 minutes left in a game, and they know their role on a set piece, and the moment doesn’t get too big for them, those are the pieces you just – you can’t buy that experience.”
“One day, I was playing ‘The Game of Life,’ the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn’t quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.”
“Video game fans are like nothing else. You can do so many movies or so many TV things, but video games is where there is just everyone.”
“The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up – whether it’s a game, a healthcare application, an education application – building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.”
“I loved the game. We played because we loved it.”
“I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.”
“I’m not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don’t want the game to be a killer of our players.”
“Ultimately, if you look at the game and there are two minutes left, and you have to ensure your victory, you don’t want to throw the damn football. You want a runner who can run the clock out.”
“God ain’t got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.”
“True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today’s politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game – it’s not a contact sport but a blood sport.”
“Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.”
“During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.”
“I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.”
“I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.”
“I still have my teeth. I don’t want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.”
“The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.”
“We wanted Peyton to have a chance to win another Super Bowl. We have a chance to honor him like we did other players that came back. He’s one of the greatest players. In the end. you look for a great football game, and that’s what you hope for.”
“For me, ‘Evil Urges’ was like a video game. If you play ‘Super Mario Brothers,’ there’s a level where it’s like a snowscape, and then there’s a level where it’s a desert and a level that’s like a jungle.”
“Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.”
“I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.”
“I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.”
“Most video games, you build up toward the big, bad boss. And it’s just a bigger, more powerful version of what you’ve been fighting all along in the game.”
“People who liked the ‘Arkham Asylum’ video game can Google comics to download.”
“The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.”
“If you go to the ball game, you don’t need to read the game story.”
“How can we grow the game? It’s a conversation in every sport, how do you tap into the millennials? Golf is no different.”
“We want the game to be attractive to a new audience, but you have to be careful because there are certain traditions this game upholds. Silence over the swing, that’s always been there. That’s not understood by those who don’t play golf.”
“From 1975-’79, I worked for PGA professional Tony Bruno. For five years I watched, lost in admiration, as Tony ran the golf shop at Battleground Country Club in Manalapan, N.J. Tony put in 80-hour weeks doing what nearly 29,000 men and women club pros do every day: Keeping the game alive with a smile.”
“The sport is not about one player, and I say that with a world of respect for his talents on the golf course. But the game is bigger than Tiger Woods.”
“When I tell people that I get interviewed five or six times more than I will interview players or coaches leading up to the game that comes as a surprise. That’s part of it and it just goes with being part of a Super Bowl broadcast team. I enjoy it.”
“I think I shot 78 one time. My golf game is so overrated.”
“I think when you have a National Championship Game, a Super Bowl, a Final Four, a World Series, I don’t see why there is any reason to pick out one individual as the MVP because it is about a team winning a championship. Maybe that best explains what I believe in at the core in my work as a broadcaster.”
“I could care less about identifying who the MVP is in a championship game.”
“I actually went to the first game in Saints history. We were living in New Orleans at the time. I was eight. They opened against the L.A. Rams in 1976. I went with my dad, and we bought standing-room only seats at Tulane Stadium. We actually sat in the aisle.”
“No matter the event, a Super Bowl, an NFL game, a rank-and-file golf tournament, there is a demand when you are live and exposed to try to get it right and do justice to the event. That’s the way I have always approached it.”
“I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.”
“Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.”
“I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.”
“On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it’s a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.”
“’Game of Thrones’ is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.”
“It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.”
“There’s an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It’s hard to explain.”
“It’s tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It’s no fun. It’s embarrassing. But there really isn’t anything I can do. It’s just a part of my game.”
“Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.”
“That really helps a player, knowing when they’re going to go in the game and what they need to do when they get in there, what to expect.”
“I go out there, and I know if I play my game, then I’m going to be all right.”
“It’s a game that I love and I want to continue to play. I know that I’ll have a job somewhere. You’ve just got to go out there and put your best foot forward.”
“I’m just trying to focus on playing my game and playing well, and whatever happens afterwards, we’ll see.”
“People see the scoring, and oftentimes, that’s all they think about with me, but I try to get better at all aspects my the game and become a better basketball player.”
“I’ve always been pretty confident in my abilities to play the game and that if I get an opportunity to play consistently and be a part of team, then I feel like I’ve always been able to produce.”
“NBA teams like to see guys who can help a team win a game in a lot of fashions.”
“I’ve always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.”
“Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.”
“I play really hard. I put my body on the line every damn practice. Every day in the games. That’s my passion. That’s how I give to the game.”
“I’m blessed; I’m fortunate to be able to play the game that I love every single day.”
“I learned ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ the national anthem. I always wanted to play it before the Bulls game, but I always thought, like, Coach would be like, ‘You’re not focused on the game!’ So I never really asked.”
“I play dominoes all the way until I got Bible study. And then I do Bible study. I go to the game. After the game, come home. Dinner. Dominoes until I go to sleep. I’m. Not. Joking.”
“People don’t work as hard as I do. They don’t expect the same things out of the game that I do.”
“You can’t be selfish in this game. You’ve got to know, at the end of the day, that it’s all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.”
“Music is my way of taking my mind away from the game. When I’m singing, you don’t got anything to worry about. Don’t gotta worry about scoring however many points or winning the game. No matter how good or how bad you are, it’s fun.”
“I love the game, and I don’t do it for any other reason except to compete and go up against the best and try to prove I can hang. All my emotion came out at one time.”
“The main thing is confidence. I’m gaining more and more confidence to do whatever I want to do on the basketball court, whether it is shooting threes or sprinting to the rim and finishing or ball handling. I’m confident enough because I have worked on it that I am going to do the exact same things in the game.”
“I like to think I’m pretty close in comparison to Aaron Rodgers. He’s very athletic and gets the ball out quickly. He’s very knowledgeable of the game, controls the offense totally, and that’s something I try to do. Just know the offense inside and out.”
“You see guys in the NFL when you’re younger, and you try to model your game after that.”
“That’s why we all play the game. You want to be a player; you want to be out there to play.”
“You try to say every week that you’re facing a faceless opponent. No matter who it is, you want to have the same mindset, no matter what type of game it is – first game of the season, last game of the season.”
“Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids’ game that grown men get to play. I’m just privileged to get to do that every day.”
“Whenever you don’t catch a ball in a game, you really find out who loves you and who doesn’t.”
“Whenever we’re all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There’s a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it’s all about winning, and it’s all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.”
“I just wanted to keep the game close until we scored some runs.”
“They’re still in the game, and they’re trying to get back into it.”
“I played a trial game for Reading against Brentford. Then the coach told me that they couldn’t afford to take me on. So I went to see Brentford. I couldn’t believe it when they signed me – they were in the league above Reading.”
“The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.”
“I don’t hunt big African game anymore.”
“The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.”
“It’s less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.”
“In Little League back in Oklahoma, I struck out 14 batters in a six-inning game, and we won the state championship.”
“Sometimes things don’t come easy, and golf isn’t an easy game.”
“Obviously, in WWE, everyone is on top of their game.”
“The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn’t something I’d think about until I’d turn the machine on again.”
“I don’t think I’ll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.”
“And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don’t have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.”
“It’s a great thing to be underestimated because it puts off your rival or enemy – they’re not on their full game if they underestimate you.”
“Women of my generation who’ve stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.”
“When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that’s tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game.”
“I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.”
“Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.”
“Every year I tell myself that I’m not going to read any reviews and then I do. We’re all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it’s part of the game, you’re going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that’s how it goes. I don’t write for the reviews.”
“Watching ‘Morvern Callar’ was a game changer for me.”
“You can never say never in this game, but I can’t see myself boxing again. There’s loads of things I want to do.”
“Concept is what makes actors raise their game.”
“Casting young people is always so difficult, and they got it so right in ‘Game of Thrones.’ All the young actors are amazingly talented and so professional.”
“That’s been one of the best things about doing ‘Game of Thrones.’ My social circle in London has more or less doubled just by doing it because nearly everyone is based in London. And I hadn’t long moved to London before doing it, so it’s been really great in terms of meeting people to hang out with while I’m there.”
“Street-casting – people like Katie Jarvis in ‘Fish Tank,’ spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform – has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.”
“Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it’s starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone’s on merit now.”
“HBO spent a huge amount of money on ‘Game Of Thrones,’ and it won’t be able to keep spending the money if it can’t make it back from people watching it legitimately. It will have an effect on the quality of the programme.”
“When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.”
“The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.”
“Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.”
“I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it’s the simplest to watch.”
“You and I are the players, God’s our head coach, and we’re all playing the biggest game of all.”
“You and I are players, God’s our coach, and we’re playing the biggest game of all. We have a loving God that made us. We need to get on His team. It says in His word, there’s only one way to Him and that’s through Jesus Christ.”
“Part of playing the game of life is you’re going to have some losses.”
“I applaud anyone who comes to a football game, given the finances – it’s not an easy thing to do.”
“Football is a game of opinions, and some people have a great opinion of me, and some people probably think I’m absolutely useless.”
“I’m experienced. I’ve played at the highest level for a long time and done a lot of things in the game.”
“I need to improve and improve all the time because I’m still learning the game, and the game is changing all the time.”
“I will never go into a game aggressive because I will cost my team the victory if I am reckless. If I have got a personal vendetta with someone, or I don’t like the way someone has done something to me in the game, I am just going to have to get over it.”
“I’m going to keep loving football. That’s one thing I’m most proud of: my hunger and desire for the game has not stopped.”
“To go into a game wondering, ‘What if I do this wrong?’ is a terrible way to think. You just have to believe in what you can do.”
“We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on hard luck or the umpires. We never gave any other team credit for being able to play ball, and the result was that we were hard to beat. If I could get my team to be confident, I think we would work our way to the front pretty quickly.”
“You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you’re going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.”
“I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.”
“I hate striking out, doesn’t matter what time of the game. I just don’t like striking out.”
“I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.”
“I don’t live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.”
“I miss the game – I miss it a lot.”
“Especially in football, it is not a QB’s game… even though the media likes to make it into that – it takes the whole team.”
“I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.”
“The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.”
“As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off – the whole traditional football game – as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.”
“I’ve figured out that life in general is a team effort; it’s a team game.”
“I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don’t think I could have reached the heights that I have in football – being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.”
“The name of the game is ‘kill the quarterback.’ Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that’s handling the ball.”
“Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.”
“I don’t think it’s fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say ‘Show us you’re a winner right now!’ Winning isn’t everything. I’ll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he’s a loser in life.”
“Being a celebrity or anything else where you’re really ambitious, it’s really a game to see how successful you can get.”
“Anthony and I are putting together a company where we won’t lose our jobs based on quarterly earnings and can afford to play a longer game. That short game is what creates a glut of mediocrity in the market because people are desperate for hits, and it puts so much pressure on executives to deliver them. We will take that pressure off the artists.”
“Once you’re in the game and it’s a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you’re doing.”
“I’m leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories.”
“After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.”
“This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.”
“You cannot expect to be on intimate terms with everybody on your club, and there is no reason why you should be, so long as you are playing the game.”
“It’s huge. You win the first game of the series, you want to win the series.”
“We’ve got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.”
“Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.”
“When you’ve been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you’ve played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.”
“Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It’s so much more than money.”
“It’s nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who’s in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.”
“People are texting and smash into the car in front of them – I think there is some humor in that. And the virtual games. People are playing these virtual games, but they’re real – I mean, the people are really playing, but it’s not a game.”
“Actually, before ‘Super 8,’ I didn’t even have a game console. But now I do. For a kickoff for ‘Super 8,’ they gave us all brand new PlayStation 3s.”
“I love when guys come at the beginning of the game and start talking trash. It gets me going.”
“My coaches sometimes say I’m a little bit too competitive. But I want to win, and I feel like we should win every game.”
“Chinese fans are just passionate about the game. The love they have is just insane.”
“I see a lot of athletes that don’t really use social media, or they’re saying the same stuff. I kind of wanted to change the game.”
“I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.”
“There are times when I’m not eating buns if I’m on a low carb diet. I’ll have hot dogs and romaine lettuce, but if I’m at a baseball game, I’m always eating a hot dog.”
“Football is a game you play with your mind.”
“Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.”
“There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.”
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
“My experience on clay is less than possibly on hard and grass courts, but in terms of my game style and my physical abilities, I think there’s no reason why I can’t adapt well to the surface and really try to maximize what I can do well on clay.”
“What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.”
“Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.”
“When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole – it creates an engaging experience. We don’t dip in and out of an episode of ‘Game of Thrones,’ after all – we take it in as a whole. Why have we abandoned this concept when it comes to publications, simply because they exist online?”
“The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it’s usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.”
“What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game.”
“The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.”
“I’m dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for ‘Space Invaders.’ I remember when that was the first game that wasn’t a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on ‘Space Invaders,’ in the form of quarters, of course.”
“I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It’s a colossal waste of time. And I can’t say it’s a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you’ve spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.”
“If YouTube has plenty of premium content, people will watch that in the same way they watch ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Breaking Bad.’”
“People, on their bucket lists, are saying, ‘I want to see a game at Rupp Arena.’ Magic Johnson will call and say, ‘I want to come to the game tonight. I want to see John Wall or Anthony Davis or Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.’ It’s become fashionable to be seen here, because people want to be seen and associated with success.”
“There are no boys in this game.”
“If it’s late in the game, then you have your five best free-throw shooters on the court.”
“If they want to go to college and then leave, let them leave when they want to leave. Why would we force a kid to stay? ‘Well – it’s good for the game?’ It’s about these kids and their families.”
“I’d rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.”
“At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can’t win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.”
“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you. I’m happy to share what I can, because I’m in it for the love of programming.”
“I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming – the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.”
“It is true that the gameplay for ‘Orcs&Elves’ was designed around the limitations of mobile phones, and that if we were starting completely from scratch for the DS, we would probably do things a bit differently, but the bottom line is that when we sit a random DS player down with the game, they have a lot of fun.”
“It’s nice to have a game that sells a million copies.”
“Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don’t have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what’s important as I’m working on a game.”
“With ‘Rage,’ it was a little bit different because this was going to be the public’s first interaction with the ‘Rage’ IP. Early on, right after the tech demo, there was some marked concern internally how much of a bad thing it would be if the game went out and it wasn’t well released and people got a bad taste off it.”
“I think ‘World of Warcraft’ shows that people today still like a good fantasy hack and slash game. I always thought that a lot of computer fantasy games leapt into complex party-based play somewhat prematurely.”
“To the game code, the world is still just a tile map, but for rendering, each map was exported as a general-purpose 3D model, and the artists could then go through it and spend the polygons any way they liked, without the limits of line-of-constant-z software rasterization that we lived with on the mobile phones.”
“There is absolutely zero doubt that you can technically do an excellent full-featured FPS game, because these devices are more powerful now than, like, a previous generation Xbox.”
“People don’t know what they are doing most of the time. They don’t know what they want. It’s only in ‘the movies’ that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.”
“What was exciting to me in talking to Kogonada was I was just very convinced that he was a very real and pure artist. He was so uninterested in the commercial game.”
“Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film – that we’re all doing this person’s reel.”
“As long as the rent’s getting paid, you don’t think about getting out of the game.”
“Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!”
“It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they’d be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.”
“I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.”
“I’m a huge ‘Game of Thrones’ fan.”
“I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to – what the story’s up to – and I’m giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.”
“The game is not lost – or won – until the last bell goes.”
“I guess when we get older, we try so hard to get our game back. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn’t.”
“I’ve tried to lose weight two or three times, and every time, my golf game was horrible.”
“I love the thought of the AAF giving players a chance to earn experience through playing the game of football at a high level. And letting players showcase their skills and continue to develop.”
“I love everything about this great game of football.”
“This great game of football is about challenges every day.”
“Guys that are competitive and love to play the game of football and love their teammates, you can’t have enough of those guys on your team.”
“The National Football League is a very physical game.”
“I happen to love Chase Daniel. I love his competitive zeal, how smart he is, how knowledgeable he is about the game.”
“The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it’s a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don’t count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn’t make the next sentence of the next book appear.”
“That’s what writing is: it’s imagining that you can make a world. That’s what basketball is, too: it’s imagining the game as a world.”
“What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in ‘Hoop Roots’ was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.”
“How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can’t throw a wet ball.”
“We get done with the game, and it’s an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That’s when I thought God was telling me that’s enough-time for you to go do something else.”
“I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much as seems reasonable because the economists who use more mathematics are somehow more respected than those who use less. That’s the trend.”
“Some of the best times I’ve ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I’m not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.”
“Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There’s a certain glory in both.”
“In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.”
“After preliminary work by a number of other distinguished mathematicians and economists, game theory as a systematic theory started with von Neumann and Morgenstern’s book, ‘Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,’ published in 1944.”
“In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.”
“People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That’s what brought the game alive.”
“Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.”
“Everyone works so hard on their game and on their body. Most of the time, it comes down to who is more relaxed mentally; on the court while playing and off the court.”
“The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.”
“The best thing about being 6’9” is that it helps with my tennis game, especially with my serve.”
“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn’t make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn’t play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.”
“A lot of filmmakers understand that the work is done digitally, and it’s technically possible to change it late in the game.”
“Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.”
“I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn’t anything called a video game. When ‘Pong’ came out, it was awesome.”
“I think ‘Disney Infinity’ is exciting. It’s hard to even call it a video game, because it’s so different. What excites me about this is how it’s going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it’s up to them. You can play it to where everything’s laid out for you.”
“Walmart is going to be very good at this e-commerce game.”
“I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a different language.”
“I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.”
“At work, you want to stand out but not in extra-funky ways. At the core, it’s about dressing for girls – who are most of my fans – and you want to dress up for them. You just want to feel like you’re on top of your game.”
“I don’t like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it’s hard to focus. There’s so much going on, and it’s cold. I’d rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.”
“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.”
“Creating the fictional background for a game world isn’t significantly different from creating a background for fiction.”
“I like games that are complex – the deeper you get into the game, the more there is to learn.”
“I’ve often said, ‘If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.’ Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler.”
“Trip Hawkins – and this was the early 1980s – was saying there’s going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they’re going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.”
“There’s so many kids who only know me from the video game. And they want to know if I’m home – and if I have a video game I can give them on Halloween. And sometimes they’re surprised to learn there actually is a ‘Madden.’”
“If you go back to the history of the ‘Madden’ game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I’d been cursed. And I’ve never had that feeling.”
“If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me ‘Coach,’ but if they know me for the video game, they just call me ‘Madden.’”
“If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want to read as much about it as you can, see it live and watch as many games as you can. If you’re the type who wants to be as involved as you can in the sport, you’re probably going to want to play ‘Madden NFL.’”
“When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.”
“It’s been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as ‘Coach,’ and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game.”
“I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn’t have any experience to be home watching games. I didn’t know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, ‘I’d like to have something like that someday.’”
“There’s so many kids who only know me from the video game.”
“The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.”
“The tension in pro ball comes from the realization that any game could be your last, that an injury could end your career. And in TV, you never know if or when your series will be canceled.”
“I think about the game plan, and then I go through all the little things that are almost impossible to do. If you go through those things in your mind, you can do them.”
“I quit the media game. I’m out. I’m done.”
“If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he’d already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he’s the greatest all around talent that I’ve ever seen.”
“We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can’t just depend on the fact that it is a great game.”
“If you really want to get it more exciting, no linesmen. And have the players call their lines. That would make the game more exciting, I promise you. It would be awesome.”
“The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game.”
“They should be required to be in less events; there should be less events for the women. It seems it takes an actual meltdown on the court or women quitting the game altogether before they realize there’s a need to change the schedule.”
“In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I’m out in front and winning. I don’t give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.”
“There is but one game and that game is baseball.”
“Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.”
“Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.”
“Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball.”
“When I’m in the ring with somebody like Puma, it really forces me to level up and rise to the top of my game. It’s sometimes just face-melting, the kind of stuff that he can do.”
“I do remember once going to Salzburg in Austria. Liverpool were playing a European game there, and they put me in a box behind glass. I hate being behind glass; I always want to feel part of the action.”
“I have had a wonderful time. I don’t think things could have gone any better for me because I was football-mad as a boy, and to get a job watching the game and going to all the major events I have been to has been very rewarding.”
“Even now, I still get a bit apprehensive before a game because I am worried about whether I have done enough preparation or if something is going to catch me out. But the fear factor has gone – as it should have done by now, really, after nearly 50 years.”
“I’ve watched us go out on penalties so often. I really thought we’d make it at Euro ’96, especially after Gazza’s goal against Scotland. I still go to every England game as a spectator.”
“The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.”
“One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it’s a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can’t when it’s close.”
“The president can’t succeed without Congress, and Congress can’t succeed without the president. The image of one depends on the image of another. It is not a zero-sum game.”
“Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win – preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.”
“Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.”
“It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.”
“We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.”
“The thought processes that go through my head when I’m playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they’re more interesting to me than what you think about when you’re doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.”
“If you’re a professional athlete, and after the game, you’re eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You’re making a mistake.”
“In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.”
“Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results – especially the American taxpayer.”
“Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and watch the game.”
“There were butterflies, otherwise, you’re not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.”
“My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals.”
“The game’s a beautiful game when five guys go out there and give something of themselves so that you can win.”
“You can’t afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.”
“Depending on the point in the game and what’s necessary, if you can deliver the play, whatever that is – heck, if it’s a screen – and you get a guy open, and he scores a big basket for you, that gives me as much of a charge as anything.”
“I try to exploit things against everybody; that’s part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you’re beating their team.”
“Basketball is a game of streaks. Sometimes a guy will be cold for a month and then get hot for a month.”
“I understand the process of politics and the game of television.”
“’Entertainment Tonight’ would send me out to do interviews with musicians like Sting and Coldplay, and I was able to watch how they plan their shows. The late Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead always had a game plan, but he also was flexible if he had to change something at the last minute.”
“There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.”
“We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.”
“And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball’s profitability by ‘running the game like a business.’”
“As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.”
“Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.”
“Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.”
“If I haven’t made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.”
“The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.”
“Yes, we’ve seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling – baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.”
“If you’re blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn’t just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.”
“Momentum is a whole lot in the game of basketball. People dwell on momentum, but that really does matter.”
“I have an opportunity to be in the N.B.A. and play the game that I love the most and be able to take care of my family and myself.”
“I feel like I can be a great defensive player when I put my mind to it for the whole game, not just half the game.”
“It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.”
“You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you’re outscored.”
“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.”
“I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.”
“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.”
“I don’t think I was a fine game coach. I’m trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.”
“Obviously I read the newspaper sometimes, or I look on the Internet. When you go out in public, you hear things, and people ask you questions, and that’s part of the game.”
“These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable.”
“That’s the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you’re entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That’s why it’s the best game.”
“Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. … Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?”
“When I had a kid, it was a game changer.”
“I don’t understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.”
“Simplicity – that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that’s it – simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn’t exist.”
“I’m a huge wrestling video game fan. I grew up on wrestling video games.”
“It’s always fascinating to me and blows my mind whenever I’m in a video game because I am such a big video game fan at heart.”
“Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.”
“The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.”
“You look at stats for a guy who is a pretty good linebacker, he’ll make 100 tackles. You make 100, you’re averaging seven or eight tackles a game. If you play every down, that’s a good number.”
“I still love the preparation of the game. I think that actually helps you heal faster, still being around it; it keeps you motivated. It keeps you engaged, and I want to be around my teammates.”
“I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That I’m athletic, that I’m fast, and I’m relentless.”
“I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don’t talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I’m coming.”
“You can’t ignore mobile. We are doing a lot of stuff in the game space, mostly nonconsole stuff, and those are primarily mobile/pad games.”
“I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future; I just know this: I’m going to continue to give my best effort to the game, stay prepared.”
“I’ve been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin’ says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.”
“In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.”
“Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He’s the ‘wildcat’ who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it’s Ronnie Brown, it’s Jerious Norwood, it’s whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback.”
“I spend most of my time looking at game film.”
“I show up in a playoff game, I have my sideline sheet. I can’t even spit plays out, I get so excited. I mean, you get nervous. These are critical, do-or-die situations. Third down and 1, Red Zone, what do I call? Two minute drill? Are we going to go no huddle? These are decisions that you wrestle with.”
“I kind of like to be one of the guardians of the game.”
“My mother and I lived in an apartment complex in a neighborhood. So there was a gaggle of kids. Every day after school, we’d just meet up in a field, and some game would be chosen, Wiffle ball or tag, and you’d play that until the streetlights came on.”
“Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way – a first-order, first-person experience – rather than filtered through the mind of another.”
“What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn’t just another game. It isn’t just another sport. It’s life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.”
“You never know when you’re going to throw a no-hitter or if you’re ever going to get the chance to do it. It’s one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it’s either going to be your night or just a complete game.”
“You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can’t really worry about that stuff.”
“As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.”
“It’s a reasonable thing to tell somebody, ‘I’ve watched 70 hours of ‘Game of Thrones.” That’s a totally normal, boring thing to say about yourself. But if you were like, ‘I just spent 100 hours playing ‘Skyrim,” people think you’re a weirdo.”
“I like getting up in front of an audience. It’s fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can’t deny it. And it’s very funny, too. Sometimes you’re shy; you go somewhere and everyone’s looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.”
“A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.”
“Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game’s the thing!”
“Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.”
“I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.”
“Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.”
“So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.”
“Even if you never do anything about this, you’ve benefited from an unjust system. You’re already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.”
“’Bad Blood’ tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he’s attacked by a vampire, he figures it’s game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick’s blood poison the vampire.”
“Ask any deer camp old-timer for a foolproof recipe, and you’re likely to encounter a lot of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup. There is a reason for that: Mushrooms plus cream plus game meat adds up to a perfect trinity of flavors.”
“For centuries, pates have been one of the greatest vehicles for wild game. But making a pate, which is nothing more than a meatloaf, has tended to be a laborious task, with ingredient lists as long as a shotgun barrel.”
“A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew – often served, like chipped beef, over toast – that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s.”
“I’m a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.”
“I remember watching ‘Fargo.’ I thought that was cruel. ‘GoodFellas,’ lots of Scorsese stuff, I think is unnecessarily violent and almost a celebration of violence. I don’t see ‘Game of Thrones’ as being a celebratory violence.”
“The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.”
“My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that.”
“I wish I had more of a game plan of how I’m going to, like, take down toxic masculinity. But I think that game plan is just going to reveal itself if we keep going. I think I need to keep plugging along, and it’ll happen.”
“I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.”
“Anybody who likes to play poker, if you want to find a good poker game, you’re going to go play. It’s not anything where I’m betting the house, like $100,000. You go, kick back, have fun, talk to some of the fans, enjoy it.”
“I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember.”
“Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn’t bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.”
“Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.”
“I’ve worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it’s a shame.”
“At Sunderland, if I had a bad game, it wasn’t like it was the end of the world.”
“As a player, you want to win every game. That’s what footballers do: they want to play, and they want to win.”
“A day or two before games, it’s all carb overload: pasta, rice, potatoes, stuff like that. And, straight after the game, it’s important to get as much carbohydrate on as possible. Refuel your body and get as much back in as you can. As it tails off a day or two later you, ease off on the carbs and go to more protein, vegetables, and salads.”
“When I was very young, coming into the Sunderland side, if we got beaten, I’d be very down. I’d go home, and it would drag on for days, I’d be thinking about the game. I was from Sunderland, felt things like a fan, and got really down.”
“When you’re on the pitch, you give 100 percent to win the game.”
“The physical part of football has always been a massive part of my game so I can cover the ground during games.”
“You need people who are vocal on the pitch to give information at different times of the game.”
“I have been in tournaments before where people would say, ‘England should win this game,’ and we didn’t.”
“Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.”
“The more games you play, the more game management you learn.”
“The pitch is always going to be the same lines, same goal height. It’s just a game of football.”
“I always work hard on and off the pitch for the Saturday’s game, and it’s all about performing on a Saturday; that’s why I work my socks off during the week.”
“As long as I’m communicating and staying in the game, my concentration is always going to be there.”
“We do about 600 saves in a training week, just for that one save on a match day. That’s why you’ve got to be in the game at all times.”
“Sometimes maybe it just doesn’t go right in the game, but that’s football, and I think I’m definitely improving game by game, and getting more experience is good.”
“No, I never go into a game with any doubts. I always feel confident in my ability, and hopefully I can be strong mentally.”
“The Manchester City game is what the Premier League is all about. You have to thrive on those big occasions.”
“Footwork is the biggest element to any quarterback game because if it’s off, it will mess with your mechanics.”
“I’ve had the liberty of having a lot of control in the offences I’ve been a part of because I get the game pretty well, and I pick things up fast.”
“I am a fan of Cam Newton. I love watching him play the game. He is an unbelievable talent: throwing the football, running the football.”
“The game is getting younger and the game is getting better. It has to do with Tiger and Phil, largely, inspiring everybody and brought a lot more youth into the game of golf.”
“Golf, to its foundation, is a game of integrity and one that encourages us to give back, kind of be ambassadors, role models, I guess, for kids – whether they like golf or not.”
“The generation that I’m in is extremely talented, and those that are still in school, my peers that are my age that will be out here really soon, you guys will see, will make a pretty easy transition on the PGA Tour. I don’t think they will have a problem at all. The game is getting younger, and the game is getting better.”
“If you are going to talk negative about a place, you’re almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.”
“I have a lot of confidence in my game. I love to play with confidence, be aggressive, and that’s just how I’ve always done it.”
“I think there’s really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it’s a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don’t totally understand why they’re on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.”
“There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.”
“The game in T20 cricket moves so fast and guys are always putting you under pressure – you can have plans for the likes of Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell and try to execute them but they can then do the exact opposite of what you expect, especially Maxwell.”
“It’s really important to have your escape away from cricket, whatever that is for the individual. I enjoy my time away from the game, that really refreshes me and lets me get excited for when I do go back in and play.”
“When Mahela Jayawardene was with us before the Test series against Pakistan he said it should all be about enjoying your talent and skill. He took his bat out there to score runs and enjoy playing the game.”
“It was a relief to get dropped which is sad in a way because you never want to miss a game. But I was not performing and mentally I got to a stage where I was not concentrating and did not want to be there. I was not enjoying walking out there and feeling like I didn’t know where the next run was coming from.”
“Going into a new environment with new coaches posed the question as to how well I actually know my own game. To have these big names asking what I want from them, and what makes me tick, showed me how selfish you have to be with your practice.”
“One of the things that I like to pride myself on is being the guy who sees the game through till the end.”
“Just because I have to deal with the stress and pressure and nerves of elite sport every day, it doesn’t mean it all comes easily. I have worked hard at the mental side of my game.”
“In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.”
“Franchise T20 competitions are great and the skill level is very high, but playing for your country is a huge honour and T20 is so popular that it should be recognised as an international game.”
“T20 in international cricket can almost be paid lip-service at times, with one game tagged on to the end of an ODI series or a long tour – sometimes it can feel like there is no point in playing it.”
“We want to inspire cricket fans and enhance their love for the game as well as bring new people and children into the fold and encourage them to pick up a bat.”
“All I ever try and do in any game is play to how I see the situation.”
“I fight for my fans. I love putting on a good show for them, and I feel that they enjoy a good stand-up game.”
“That’s what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There’s not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.”
“I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, ‘If you don’t hit the fastball, you’re not going to get to the big leagues.’ Every game, you’re going to get a fastball.”
“Chef Michel Richard is always at the top of his game.”
“In this game of politics, it’s always kind of blame.”
“When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is ‘all the hot dogs you can eat’; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.”
“Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we’re going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.”
“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.”
“I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.”
“There has been evolution in many different areas – the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology… I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.”
“I give a lot of instruction in training. It’s difficult for me to do the same in matches, so I need guys on the pitch to read the game, to understand what we want.”
“The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.”
“When I face the media, maybe I don’t feel it now, here with you, because it’s a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.”
“When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.”
“Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.”
“Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they’ve played their first game!”
“I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.”
“In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It’s not mind games; I don’t try to do that.”
“The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters.”
“I don’t have to prove myself to anyone. People know what I’m capable of. I’ve spent a long time in this game.”
“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”
“I’ve only ever played ‘God of War’ while we were shooting it. I’ve seen a lot of the videos, but while we were shooting ‘God of War,’ they had a green room for the actors to hang out in, and they always had the newest game on the big screen. So we’d sit there playing ‘God of War’ to get us into the mood.”
“I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman’s sport.”
“President Trump sees the world in transactional and zero-sum terms – if something is good for China, it must be bad for the U.S. By contrast, economists see the world in much more nuanced ways: if globalization is well-managed, it can be a positive-sum game, where both the U.S. and China gain; if it is badly managed, it can be negative-sum.”
“Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies – whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico – are stronger. But Trump’s approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.”
“Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It’s a losing game, but we keep on trying.”
“The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.”
“There’s one thing about me: I do love the game of football.”
“Obviously, I didn’t get looked at and didn’t get recruited by Fresno State or any other school in the nation, to be honest. It has always been my goal to go into every game and show you why you should have recruited me, why you should have offered me.”
“I just love how fluid football has to be, how much time and energy it takes to practice and then taking it to the field and executing in a game situation.”
“In practice, I think I’ve thrown it 82 yards, one time. In a game, I don’t think I’ve pushed it that far – probably 60, 65 yards in the air.”
“Any football game, you can be hit one way or another. It’s not the safest sport that we play; it’s a beautifully violent game, and that’s what, in part, I love about it.”
“It’s football. The game hasn’t changed. There’s not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it’s our job to move the ball, to score points, and keep our defense off the field.”
“I just loved jokes so much as a child. I remember wanting to perform at, like… age seven by reading from a kids’ joke book, and my parents being like, ‘That’s not what standup comedy is,’ and me being like, ‘Not yet it isn’t! I’m going to change the game.’”
“I broke my wrist at summer camp playing a game called ‘volleybat,’ which was baseball but with a volleyball. It is as dangerous as it sounds.”
“I’m always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I’ve never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they’re trying to create.”
“When the director has a vision for a piece that I’ve never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they’re trying to create.”
“’The Hunger Games’ for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That’s kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.”
“Video game voicing is absolutely different from cartoon work. In cartoons, you’re almost always there with the entire cast, and the entire script is acted out in sequence. With video games, it’s you by yourself, in a room with a script you just got when you walked in.”
“Practice is tough. We try to purposely make it difficult on our players on whatever it is that we’re trying to do during the week to get ready for that opponent so that we see the most difficult looks, so that we make our players aware of the things that could certainly impact the game in a negative fashion.”
“There’s a lot of learning that goes on based on the mistakes that we may make in practice, and our guys do a great job of trying to digest that information and be ready to go when we use it during the course of the game.”
“I think any player at any position their rookie year, they’re trying to figure out how to process all the information we give them, how to process what the defense is doing and then actually physically play the game and the position that they’re playing.”
“Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don’t know whether it’s that I don’t have game or just don’t feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.”
“I think my game isn’t very flashy, but the test of time for the position of quarterback is how fast can you get the ball out of your hands to the right guy? And I think I do that better than everyone else.”
“Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you’re immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.”
“So much of performing is a mind game.”
“So much of performing is a mind game. You’re memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thinking about it in the wrong way, everything can blow up in your face.”
“My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.”
“We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you’re game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.”
“For this game, we shot it just like it as if it was a film so there wasn’t that much different from doing a film other than some technical things for the costume that had to be done so they could transfer the footage later and make it look animated.”
“Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.”
“And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I’ve always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn’t say no.”
“I don’t know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I’m not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I’m concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I’ve never been a networker or I’ve never been very social.”
“If that’s the way the game is played, I don’t want to play anymore.”
“Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, ‘If this is the way the game is played, I’m not sure I want to play it.’”
“Honestly, I started playing the pause game right after the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. That’s around when pauses really started.”
“I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.”
“Like any footballer, I love to play. I love to feel important. I love to enjoy the game.”
“I’ve tried to improve – defending, attacking, pressing, trying to think before a game, to be more clever, do something before the defender can think of it, to become a better player. That makes me feel good, that hunger to improve in every way.”
“One of the first lessons I learned in football is that it takes a team to win a game.”
“But I just try to do my best. I don’t know if my game can influence the game of the team and how we play, but I just try to help with my football, for my team-mates and the club.”
“If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It’s easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.”
“NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn’t fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.”
“It will have to be a universal movement, and that will never be… because the big-league game, as it is now, is overrun with Southern blood. These fellows would have to stop at the same hotels, eat in the same dining rooms, and sleep in the same train compartments with the colored players. There’d be trouble for sure.”
“Social media, for me, is just a thorn in my side. It’s painful. For us in crisis, it has totally changed the way we do business. It’s a big, big game changer.”
“I like playing inside. I just love the physicalness of being in the box with the bigger guys. That’s just something that’s part of my game.”
“My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.”
“The genius of ‘Game of Thrones’ is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.”
“One thing ‘Game of Thrones’ has taught us all is to guard against too much emotional investment.”
“’Game of Thrones’ has never much concerned itself with shining a torch on the powerless. Their hunger and suffering in a land ravaged by war is of little concern to the story’s most powerful characters, whose antics bring so much pain to the people.”
“I first felt the addictive power of ‘Game of Thrones’ when I was prime minister, living in a world where power was also pursued relentlessly, albeit far less colourfully. Certainly, the characters of my world were nowhere near as good looking or exotically dressed.”
“Your job as a receiver is to get open and catch the ball and block in the run game.”
“It’s always nice to be on the practice field because, ultimately, practice is the most important thing other than the game because that’s where you gain your confidence; that’s where you get your fundamentals.”
“I have fun outside the game.”
“I don’t even enjoy football, at least professional football, anymore because I’m breaking the game down constantly. You’re sitting there watching the plays, and you’re talking mental reps on what would I have done here against this coverage or this leverage, this, that. It is what it is.”
“It’s always a great thing getting to play in the last game of the year.”
“Anytime you get to go out and see the fellas and play with them and talk with them and be in the huddle and look at guys and participate in drills – I mean, that’s what you play the game for, ultimately.”
“Special teams is one-third of the game.”
“Obviously, my goal No. 1 every year is to play in every game.”
“Psychologically, for an athlete to miss a game because of injury, it’s tough.”
“Why can’t we make NFL apparel cool for every day instead of only wearing it on game day?”
“Devin McCourty – he’s got his own style: he always wears a nice fitted suit and mixes up his colors. He’s got some game when it comes to the fashion world.”
“Tom Brady is Tom Brady. He was a sixth-round draft pick. A lot of people passed up on him. He’s a Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP. He’s been in a bunch of Super Bowls, and he could care less about all of that. He just cares about winning the next game.”
“Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.”
“There’s something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.”
“I’m not a morning person, and yet production is a morning person’s game.”
“I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.”
“If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It’s very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that’s never been more clearly evident than in today’s NBA game.”
“In general, we need America to take its game up a notch when it comes to broadband. It’s important to acknowledge the billions and billions of dollars of investment in fiber. But we need more.”
“My game plan is always my punching.”
“The ground game of Derrick Lewis isn’t that good.”
“Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn’t an easy thing to do, especially when you’re dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions… it’s tough.”
“A fully fit Arjen is capable of settling a game by himself.”
“Every player who plays at Bayern Munich knows that Bayern Munich is a particularly special club. Whenever we lose, then it is lashed onto almost immediately by the media, regardless whether it is a friendly or losing the away game in a Champions League tie 1-0.”
“The game has progressed, but in the end, they are still people out on the pitch, people with different personalities and feelings.”
“We need to be aware of what we need to do at every moment… and we have to manage the game; that’s the art of a great team.”
“Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.”
“There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.”
“I get a little bit emotional during a game!”
“In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.”
“We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.”
“If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.”
“The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.”
“My little brothers loved baseball. I’m not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.”
“America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the great American male writers. You could make a case for saying that it was the only game in town – from Bellow to Roth to Updike to Richard Ford – America was more or less explicitly the leitmotif.”
“’Game of Thrones’ is a good one to binge-watch, except you realize at the end of every episode that you’ve been holding your breath for, like, 30 minutes, which is probably not good for your brain.”
“A TV show besides ‘This is Us’ that makes me cry? Not a shocker, but ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“The goal for us to do with Squanchtendo is to approach all of our projects with a goal of adding interesting characters, personality, and a story to interact with in-game. Every game we make will be built from the ground up for whatever hardware it will launch on.”
“You can have an absolute laugh-out-loud-till-you’re-crying game, but if it’s not fun to play, if the mechanics aren’t there, it doesn’t matter.”
“I like to play this game where I ask people to count gay pop writers and producers they know. Everyone’s always like, ‘Oh, there are plenty!’ But we always end up counting them on one hand.”
“We’re all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the Super Bowl? I’ve just been blessed and very lucky to have two of my best games on that stage.”
“I think video games are a huge part of our society now. Having kids play baseball video games helps them understand and love the game. It could actually push them to get out there and play the game for real. That’s great for the sport.”
“Reality programming and social media make the game board bigger; they increase the number of runners on the track, each lunging at the finish line to be the first chest to hit the tape.”
“Somewhere along the way, we made it unpopular to value oneself outside the structure of fame. We created these new categories, even – reality stars, YouTube stars, Instagram-famous, Twitter-famous – when we enlarged the fame game board to allow new valuations within the fame structure to accommodate as many people as possible.”
“I express myself a lot on Tumblr, especially through my diary entries, but my Instagram is my modeling portfolio. I have my game face on at all times.”
“When I first signed to RCA, I was sort of excited and shocked that it was happening. But over the next couple of years, it really started to feel like that game you play when you’re a little kid – the one where you put your nose on a bat and then spin around and try to walk.”
“I don’t know whether I am mentally tough or not, but one thing I know is that I like the game and spend as much time as possible on it.”
“I spent a lot of time with Rahul Dravid, working on my game and chatting about cricket. He helped me a lot in the games I played for India ‘A.’”
“Everybody has different ways of playing the game.”
“You know when you go to Australia you will get sledged. That’s the fun of the game.”
“If you are hitting the ball well, your form, your technique looks good, and when you are not, everything about your game looks bad. That is how it goes.”
“It took me a long time to realise that I need to stay true to my game.”
“Earlier in the shorter format, I was not consistent, so I was not getting noticed. But I always believed that I had the game to do it. It was just about consistency.”
“I was fortunate enough to interact with him when I played for RCB in IPL. I learnt from AB as to how he prepares for a game. I get amazed by the kind of strokes he hits and the time he has got to play those shots.”
“When you get a chance to play, if you help them win a game, then the team will start believing that the player can also do this for the team. So building that confidence for yourself and the team is very important.”
“Quite honestly, cricket is same at all levels. It’s a game of bat and ball.”
“I am only trying to improve as a player with each tournament, each game, each opportunity.”
“It’s a team game, and you need to be flexible.”
“Nobody wants to lose game.”
“I always knew I had the game to do well in every format. It was just a matter of time.”
“I have had to work really hard at white-ball cricket. It doesn’t come naturally to me, I was a slow batsman; I worked hard on my game and fitness.”
“Growing up, I played on matting wickets. I always enjoyed the pace and bounce and somewhere that has a big role or big effect on your game.”
“Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I’m here in person to tell you it ain’t so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.”
“Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it’s the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.”
“I think I’m a story-based artiste. So I would opt for the performance-oriented role. I usually go by intuition while choosing a script. Also, I do not analyse my performance, nor do I bother about how my film has been performing at the box office. I personally love challenges and am game for taking up things which I haven’t attempted before.”
“His ambition for victory sets Mourinho apart. He wants to win every game, so he prepares all the smallest details; in training, at the game, everything. I loved to work with him.”
“I can be a guy’s guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.”
“In Bollywood, it’s always feast or famine for an actress. That’s the way of the game.”
“Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.”
“I believe that I’m not just a fighter in this game; I love to study the sport. And in studying the sport, I believe I have a good eye for the sport, and I’m able to talk about the sport.”
“The fight game has changed to where it’s no longer the toughest is fighting the toughest to be the best on the planet.”
“Demian Maia, he’s a legend. He’s a veteran in the game. He knows how to fight. He’s been through so many five-round fights. He’s headlined a lot of cards, fought Anderson Silva for the title, fought Tyron Woodley for the title. He’s a veteran, he knows how to fight, and he’s always training. He’s a jiu-jitsu wizard.”
“One of the hardest parts of this game, and what I don’t think people understand, is the mental side of it. They think, ‘Oh, he’s a big, stronger guy.’ But let me tell you, and I believe this without question: It’s not always the biggest, strongest, meanest, toughest-looking who gets the job done.”
“When I was younger… we used to go to this place called Rexall to play ‘Street Fighter.’ At Rexall, there would be different people from different hoods there playing the game. It was the one place that was like an equalizer. It was just about how good you were at ‘Street Fighter.’”
“Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You get kicked down. You come up swinging. You keep going. Either you are committed to it, or you aren’t.”
“In the first game I ever played in high school, I had a pick-six for a touchdown. That was a fun memory.”
“I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.”
“Cricket has become more popular, not me… When the game grows, those who’ve played it also ‘grow.’”
“It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.”
“I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don’t understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.”
“Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.”
“A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.”
“I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.”
“The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.”
“Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.”
“The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to ‘Lotto’ fever.”
“A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it’s really all about a team game.”
“It’s a goalkeeper’s job. There’s so many times you’re doing nothing for 89, 90 minutes, and then there’s a split-second moment. It’s a different challenge to outfield players, who have a lot of physical challenges and battle. We have a lot of mental battles; it’s about maintaining your focus, refining processes of what you do in a game.”
“That’s what tournament football’s all about. It’s about finding your feet in the first game, finding what works, and gaining confidence.”
“It just goes to show how much the women’s game has improved over the years: there are some outstanding goalkeepers capable of fantastic reaction saves.”
“Different techniques are now being used in futsal and handball. It’s about timing more than anything else. Those little intricacies are slowly being picked up in the women’s game – and it’s kind of going unnoticed.”
“I think obviously the media need to help promote the game and make it bigger so the younger girls have women role models to look up to and try and aspire to instead of just male footballers.”
“More teams are trying to go full-time, so it gives everyone the best chance possible to be the best footballer they can be, which makes it more appealing to fans, because we’re better as we focus solely on the game as our job.”
“I do my research the same as everyone else – I watch games relentlessly and try to be the best that I can be. It should be irrelevant whether I’m male or female, so as long as I work hard and try my best at it, then more we keep speaking about it, then we can eradicate it from the game.”
“I wanted to finish at the top of the game and on my own terms. I thought it was the perfect time at the World Cup and to go out at Chelsea. Chelsea and England were immense in how they have supported me in that transition.”
“This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.”
“People lose it when I say this, but I’m a novelist who doesn’t read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I’m also a game writer who doesn’t play games – I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.”
“If you go back and look at the early promos for Gears 1, you’ll see just how different the characters were from the actual first game, both in appearance and background. And it’s an evolutionary process.”
“I will never create a romantic angle to survive on a game show.”
“That’s what my game is built around: versatility.”
“If you’re versatile, there’s no reason a coach can’t have you in the game. That’s what my dad’s philosophy was, so from a young age, he taught me to be a guard first and a big second, though I don’t think he had a crystal ball to be able to see what the NBA would become.”
“We always have great practices, and the competition is high, and the intensity is high; it’s just about doing that now in a game and sustaining it for 48 minutes.”
“I’m very passionate, and I love the game I play.”
“I have a huge admiration for fans in China. I think they’re some of the greatest basketball fans in the world. I think they’re passionate and love the game, almost second to none.”
“I think it’s just fun when you’re being competitive and when you’re in the game and winning.”
“For me, it’s about trying to do everything I can to help us win. Try to bring that energy every night, try to make it as contagious as possible and try to win a game.”
“I love the game so much, I just want to play every time I can.”
“I’ve never felt like I’ve had a good game.”
“I’ve got an addiction to this game. An addiction to being perfect.”
“I’m in the search for the perfect game.”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s game one or game 82, playoffs or whatever. Sometimes the basketball gods don’t play in your favor that night.”
“I’d even say possibly I’m one of the best gamers in the NBA. I play everything. I play every single type of genre game.”
“You’ve gotta play a head game; especially blocking shots, you’ve gotta make it hard. You’re playing against the best of the best: they’re not gonna go straight to the basket, do a layup. You’ve gotta lure them into some shots.”
“You just gotta change your game to the environment.”
“I work hard on my game.”
“Some people might not like him because he’s my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.”
“I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don’t think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we’ve been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We’re not done yet.”
“If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I’ve been pretty smart with my money. I’m playing because I want to play this game here – I want the opportunity.”
“I don’t know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can’t play there, you should be home with your mama.”
“Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can’t tell you that you’re not at risk, and you can’t tell me there’s one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn’t thought about it.”
“I really can’t believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.”
“It’s not only about a game and tennis, but it’s more about the mental things sometimes.”
“I have a different game than most of the players.”
“My movement actually is the worst part of the game but still improving.”
“I know the world is mean, that there is so much suffering on the planet that none of us can imagine. I often think of those who have nothing, who have to suffer every day, so a winner, a game, set, match will never give me immense joy, only satisfaction.”
“It’s inspiring for me to know that you’ve got to step up your game.”
“My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I’ve always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we’d even said hello!”
“She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.”
“I like to take writing retreats within a day’s drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.”
“I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late ’90s, I was all about reruns of ‘The Price Is Right.’ I knew all the prices from the ’70s.”
“I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, ‘This is what we’re going to do,’ everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.”
“I get the celebrity game now – you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.”
“Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women’s game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police officers, landscapers, stuntwomen. Many are wives and mothers. Their husbands or boyfriends work their corners, or hide in arena restrooms, scared to watch their bouts.”
“I’ve seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It’s a show business game, and it’s one game I won’t play.”
“One afternoon, I was playing this new video game, ‘Blood and Guts.’ I was controlling Gruesome Gus versus the Crimson Menace, and I had totally waxed the guy. It was this really complex sequence of moves, and I was so excited about conquering the game that I wanted to show it to someone. Unfortunately, the only one home at the time was Mom.”
“There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you’re a savvy politician.”
“I love putting. I love to practice my short game.”
“I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn’t have a football team, so it’s the one sport I didn’t bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.”
“I’d rather spend my Sunday doing just about anything other than watching a football game – unless it’s the Super Bowl.”
“A lot of people like to justify women’s supporting role in sports media by saying, ‘Well, they’ve never played the game, so they just aren’t qualified to speak about it.’”
“My dad likes to tease me over this. We weren’t there at Fenway, and it wasn’t a consequential game, but Trot Nixon let a ball go through his legs, and from that moment on, I hated Trot Nixon. Really irrational. Based in nothing. But did not like him.”
“Garbage time is that time at the end of the game when the points don’t really matter, and nothing you do can really affect the overall outcome, but the rookies usually get a chance to play on the big stage.”
“Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal – well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we’re in. If it’s your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I’m used to that.”
“I think, probably, my best asset would probably be my all round game.”
“Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren’t necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching ‘The Nutcracker,’ and that’s fine. I enjoy both.”
“Golf is a game with morals. There’s always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That’s why it’s a gentleman’s game.”
“My parents got ahead in the news business with wits, guts, and a creative interpretation of ‘fair game.’ They leased their first helicopter in 1985, when KTLA news crews were on strike. Maybe the crews had good grievances, maybe not. Either way, my parents ignored the strike and went to work.”
“I just try to play every game like it’s Game 7 of the NBA Finals.”
“I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on.”
“I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.”
“I try to come in with a focus to stop my man and win the game. I’m always trying to be ready to catch them off their strides by being physical enough without getting fouls.”
“It’s just the game itself that drives me. I just want to be able to compete at a high level.”
“People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That’s the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people.”
“I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy.”
“I definitely don’t like to eat a lot before I play. I don’t like to play on a full stomach. Sometimes, if I’m feeling hungry before a game, I’ll eat one of those protein bars, but that’s it.”
“It’s all mental. I just have to worry about my game.”
“Coming to a team like the Spurs, you’re automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.”
“I’m trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.”
“Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college – and now.”
“I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.”
“My mindset is the same every game.”
“It’s definitely fun when you’re able to translate your practice into the game. It’s fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.”
“I just think repetition and getting the game reps shooting the ball in games really helps, rather than just practicing. You can get game timing.”
“If I get noticed for my individual performance, that’s what happens. Other than that, I’m just trying to win the game.”
“I think when you’ve been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.”
“We’re big ‘Game of Thrones’ fans, so we call our house King’s Landing. I have a studio apartment above our garage that we call Winterfell. I go to Winterfell to write.”
“I think I’ve exhausted all my options in the U.K., unless I become a game show host.”
“My biggest role model right now is Beyonce, just ’cause she is a very, very strong, powerful woman, and that’s obviously the number one reason to be inspired by her. She is just killing every game there is to kill.”
“Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.”
“My first TV show was 2003. You wouldn’t be in the game this long if you were using stooges and actors and all that kind of stuff; quite honestly, the answer is we don’t need them.”
“They can’t have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.”
“I didn’t cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.”
“Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball.”
“Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes – pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.”
“When you come into Camp Randall Stadium to play a game, you better double-clutch your chinstrap because you’re going to be in a smash-mouth game.”
“You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.”
“Songwriting’s a weird game. I never intended to become one – I fell into this by mistake, and I can’t get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.”
“To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.”
“Songwriting’s a weird game.”
“The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it’s a dangerous game for a lot of people.”
“I’ve been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I’m back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in ‘The Killing Game,’ with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome.”
“I used to apply waterproof mascara before a game – it was the easiest thing to wear while I was playing that wouldn’t sweat off – but not anymore.”
“I don’t like feeling full when I start a game, so that’s why I have a bigger meal in morning or four hours before game.”
“When I go into games as a forward, my job is really clear, and I just have to execute. But as a midfielder, you get to sort of enjoy the game more, and you get to feel the game and dictate the play.”
“I can kick your head off, but I can’t, like, play a stupid little video game.”
“You don’t want to get stuck playing 40 minutes a game with your small lineup.”
“I’ve had teams where we’ve had to get on a bus for 200 miles, play a game, and then drive 200 miles back.”
“In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it’s because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there’s no trap game.”
“I don’t think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.”
“When I was at Oklahoma, I always felt like I had to control the game because we didn’t have great scorers. So, I had to figure a way to win.”
“There are incredible decisions made in a 48-minute game with a 24-second shot clock and the last two minutes of a game.”
“The thing that surprised me is you hear a lot about NBA guys, do they really want to be coached? My experience is they really do want to be coached. They want a plan: ‘How are we going to win the game?’ And they’ll follow that plan.”
“My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they’re forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about ‘Chance.’”
“I knew I’m a hard worker and always wanted to be great at this game.”
“I don’t know if a lot of players can actually say they played in the All-Star Game in their actual city, their team’s city.”
“I know teams are gameplanning against me, trying to not let me shoot pull-ups, basically trying to take me out of the game as much as they can.”
“What I’m trying to do is play the game the right way, not force shots up. Whenever I have my opportunities, take ’em.”
“If the play is drawn up for me, you better believe I’m going to go and try to win the game.”
“My belief in God has been helping me play the way I’m playing. But for the most part, I’ve just been working on my game.”
“I work hard each and every summer, each and every day on my game to become a better player for my teammates, for the organization. Hard work always pays off.”
“Playing in an NBA game in Africa will be a special moment I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”
“I’m really happy to have been part of spreading the game of basketball and growing the game in a place like Turkey.”
“Trying to predict the future is a loser’s game.”
“I’m sticking to the script, I’m putting that organic feeling back in the game.”
“’Game of Thrones’ is amazing.”
“If you can predict where the market’s going, just do what you can predict. If you can’t, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you’re trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser’s game.”
“Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you’ve been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.”
“In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.”
“I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.”
“You’re not going to get a seven-star match or six or five in a seven-minute segment, but I always do the best I can to make that segment memorable and entertaining, and I think that’s always the name of the game.”
“’Virtual Pro Wrestling 2′ remains the best wrestling game ever, in my opinion.”
“You don’t get the accolades unless you win. It took me a while to understand. No one will remember how Kenny Smith played in Game 1 unless we win the series. The thrill is in winning.”
“Mark Jackson played 19, 20 years in the NBA. Shouldn’t even have probably been in the league, and he’s the third-ranked assist guy in the NBA. But you describe his game: Can he jump? No, not really. How’s his outside shot? Eh, it’s inconsistent. Can he defend? Nah, he can’t stay in front of guys. And he played 19 years!”
“You can dribble on carpet. I grew up in Queens, and we had carpet in our living room. And actually, even in some of these gymnasiums where we’re playing the game, we’re on carpet. If you’re 12 or 13 years old, you’ve dribbled on the carpet in your mom’s house.”
“I know the game well. I’m a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.”
“I don’t back down. Like, I don’t know how to flop. That’s never been a part of my game. For me to know if a guy likes to turn left shoulder or right shoulder in the post, I have an advantage. Or if he likes to go left all the time, I have an advantage. Or if he can’t make open jump shots, I have an advantage.”
“The work I do with my physiotherapist has been instrumental in keeping me healthy, and it’s a big reason why I’m able to continue to improve my game.”
“Once our season finishes in November, a lot of players maybe take a couple of weeks off and start training for the next year. You often usually have only a little time to work on your game and stuff.”
“If you’re serving, you still have to be prepared in a regular game, but especially when it comes to the tiebreaks. They can change on one or two points.”
“Fortunately, the way I play tennis, I don’t have to spend too much time analyzing or worrying about my opponents. I typically try to focus on my own game, and I know if I do that and execute, I can beat anyone.”
“I don’t want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man’s game.”
“Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations?”
“My friends and family know I love playing baseball – Little League through college. And every year in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for charity played at Nationals Stadium.”
“You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you’d like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.”
“It’s our way to prepare for games: the music is on before the game and after, so it’s not like because we won we’re going to change it. It’s just because it’s the thing we do; it’s the thing that gets us relaxed, maybe.”
“There’s a lot of money coming in, and so a lot of good players are going to each team, so every game is a fight, but on the other hand, it’s good to get a good, competitive league.”
“I had played in the Mercurial since my teens, but once I had tried out the Magista 2 a few times, I was ready to make a change. It is light, so I can cover all the ground I need to, but gives me a feel for the ball that’s right for my game.”
“Obviously, I try to play the game in the way that I can help the team. I know I play a little bit more defensively now, more in the role as a team player, but I think I’m doing really well in that.”
“In the end, for me, football is still a game. Even if you are a professional, you need to have fun when you are on the field. If you don’t enjoy your job, you don’t have fun.”
“When we are playing, the whole country is behind us, and that gives us a good feeling. We are almost half and half. We are from everywhere. In the end, we are doing well as a team, and we love it when we hear the game is sold out in five minutes. That’s the reason you play.”
“I’m kind of new to the racing game thing. I’ve always been, like, a shooter game kind of guy.”
“I’m busy working on every aspect of my game – defense, shooting, rebounding – but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.”
“You know, I think more people should watch women’s basketball. It’d do so much for the game.”
“’Modern Warfare,’ ‘Black Ops,’ these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can’t speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I’m actually in the game. It’s that intense.”
“Sometimes when I hear commentating, it’s sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that’s all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal.”
“Sometimes when I hear commentating, it’s sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that’s all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal. I don’t ever want to come off like that. My opinion is my opinion about someone.”
“I can’t control if people like me; I can’t control if people like my game.”
“I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.”
“As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don’t go together. You can’t be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You’ve got to let go of the diet that day.”
“They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England.”
“My game really complements what the NBA wants – a long guy who can really handle the ball and shoot the ball and make multiple decisions.”
“I’m versatile, so it’s easy for me to play any type of game.”
“That’s why I love this game, that’s why I play this game, that’s the goal. I want to be great.”
“I learned a lot my rookie season – the pace of the game. Playing at the right pace, not 100 miles an hour.”
“If I played a bad game, there’s gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.”
“I need to focus on getting to the free-throw line and knocking them down in practice and getting them in the game.”
“I really enjoy watching on the side because I can really see the game from a different perspective.”
“Personally, I wanna be in an All-Star Game. Get All-NBA.”
“Every coach has told me I’m positionless. They want me to play an all around type of game.”
“To me, throwback means I’m a smart player. I know how to play the game. I’m very skilled. I do a lot of things that other people don’t do.”
“I feel like in order for our team to have the upper hand, I have to play extremely well, and I have to bring the rest of the team with me. That’s how I feel approaching every game.”
“It’s the old Washington fiscal game of Jenga. You try to build as much debt as you can take, as much tax as you can take, until you topple the entire economy.”
“If you’re in the minority, every advantage is against you, right? So the only advantage you have against the majority is they’re too lazy to know their own rules, right? So it’s like a game of poker.”
“New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.”
“Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind – like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.”
“I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.”
“Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there’ll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don’t have configuration management, don’t have vulnerability management, don’t have patch management.”
“I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.”
“I have a severe addiction to ‘Angry Birds.’ I always tell myself, ‘One more game…’ But then there’s always another and another and another.”
“I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they’re very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That’s one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.”
“Standup really is a young man’s game, a single young man’s game. Even when I was younger, when I wasn’t single, it was hard to be on the road because you go through relationships because your girlfriend kinda got tired of you being gone.”
“I think we should not accept and tolerate racism anywhere, in any game, whether it’s a friendly game or a World Cup final, or it’s a Champions League final.”
“TV has always been a dog-eat-dog game.”
“The Australian Government’s decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.”
“For kids growing up now, there’s no difference watching ‘Avatar’ on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching ‘Game of Thrones’ on their computer. It’s all content. It’s just story.”
“If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah, it’s the same rules, but it’s a different game every time you’re out on that court. You’re working on a different part of your game every time you’re out on that court; your partner’s working on a different part of their game, and the act of being watched changes it.”
“I have never played a game in my life.”
“Why is ‘Game of Thrones’ the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can’t get it fast enough, that’s why.”
“If you wanna compete, you’ve got to get into the original content game.”
“If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.”
“I – and, I suspect, millions of Americans like me, Republicans and Democrats alike – couldn’t care less about Obama’s middle name or the ridiculous six-degrees-of-separation game that is the William Ayers non-issue.”
“Big game, under the lights – these are the games you live for.”
“I love the game of football. That’s what I’m all about.”
“The thing about football, man – it’s a team game.”
“You can receive the individual awards, but ultimately, you want to win the big game.”
“The NCAA game, the first one that I was on, I was rated a 46 with 37 speed. It was a slap in the face. I knew deep down in my heart I was better than a 46.”
“Now, I’m not afraid. Or getting myself down about missing shots or missing an assignment late. The game goes on. You’ve got another chance. That’s definitely a mental thing.”
“We love playing the game. That’s why we’re here. That’s our job. We just want to come out and play every day.”
“We had a lot of close games; we were losing games. Failing in those opportunities – when the game was close? And we needed a bucket or a stop? I wasn’t able to come through. It’s just… something that you get comfortable with as time goes on. You’re OK with failing, as long as you’re trying as hard as you can.”
“We have to play a complete game.”
“Giannis is truly a student of the game. He listens to the coaches, they show him film, and he’s always in the gym working on his game and trying to find ways to get better.”
“I got to work on my body, kept working on my game, and also just got to learn out there from the guys who are playing. Getting stronger, working on my upper-body strength, lower-body strength, just trying to get stronger.”
“I developed my game a lot and learned how to score off the dribble. I learned how to play team defense and one-on-one defense.”
“Just knowing how to get to my spots – that’s the key. Once I get to my main spots, I feel like I have a lot of options I can go to – keep on driving, pass, or shoot. I just feel like if I can get to those spots, I can play my game.”
“I’ve always been trying to add stuff to my game.”
“I’ve had to change my game a lot – try to play the right way, try to do the right things, try to be the glue guy for the team for the most part.”
“You have to play your game in this league.”
“We have to give back. We have to try to grow the game.”
“We have to try to make the game better than it was when we came in.”
“It’s a great job to have to try to spread the game, to spread joy, to help anybody out.”
“I’m trying to make the game easier for everyone else.”
“I’ve worked on my game to the point where anything they’ve asked of me, I try to come through and do it for them, whether that’s defending, making plays, being a decoy, or knocking down shots and being a scorer.”
“I know at times I’m going to have to just take the 3-ball when it’s there instead of trying to get more to that midrange. But the midrange game is definitely one of my strong suits. I can’t give that up.”
“I have a more old-school game.”
“I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, ‘What’s your end game? What’s your goal with this?’ And I said to him, ‘You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.’ And he said, ‘OK’.”
“The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.”
“We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy – not for the money, but for the glory of winning.”
“I’ve never played the PR game.”
“I loved Gary Neville’s energy, to get up and down for 90 minutes, and his leadership as well. He was always organising; he was passionate. It was just his all-round game. He was a quality defender and could also chip in with a goal and an assist.”
“Obviously, I don’t go into a game not wanting to do well. I go into every game to try to do my best for my team-mates and the club.”
“You know when you’ve had a bad game.”
“I give everything, 100%, every game – win, lose, or draw.”
“You never know what could happen. Someone could get injured early in the game, so everyone knows they have to be ready. Anyone can come on at any stage in the game and make the difference.”
“’Did our parents really let us do that?’ is a game my friends and I sometimes play. We remember taking off on bikes alone, playing in the woods for hours, crawling through storm drains to follow creek beds.”
“If you’re a basketball player and you don’t stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.”
“When I play games, I’ll make up little stories for just anything. It’s almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn’t exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.”
“I was the lead designer on ‘Portal,’ and I really enjoyed making that type of game.”
“In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms,’ named after a classical Chinese novel, and later ‘The Sims,’ a life-simulation game, and ‘StarCraft,’ a science-fiction game.”
“Streetfighting is just get out there and bang. It’s whatever in a street fight. This is different. You have to be real smart in your decisions at this professional level of the game. In a street fight, it doesn’t even matter.”
“It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.”
“No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.”
“I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what’s best for the player. And you say what’s best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.”
“I think it’s what’s best for that kid. Are you going to teach that kid a lesson for 10 years down the road by suspending him a game?”
“Life is a big craps game. I’ve got to tell you, it’s all been fun.”
“Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don’t you? Just tell me so I can get over you.”
“With the way Amazon and eBay had become big companies and with the way people were embracing technology, I was like, it is so obvious that this is going to be a huge game changer in this space. The combination of these things is going to change what it means to retail, what it means to launch brands, what it means to connect with your consumer.”
“I feel like I have to be on my game because I have to handle my solo stuff and Pentatonix stuff, so it has really kept me on my toes in a good way.”
“Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn’t really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.”
“Any kind of horror video game where I’m the first-person player and I’m… I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I’m like, I really don’t want him to die,’ and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can’t play those games.”
“We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.”
“Not missing games, miss one game due to injury in my career, and that even hurt me to miss that game, but I just love to get out there and compete, both ends of the ball, and I don’t think I’m afraid to take the big shot. If I’m 2-for-15, I’m not afraid to take that shot, make it 3-for-16.”
“I’m trying to get a lower center of gravity. I think, when I play at a lower level, it helps my overall game, just my explosiveness to the rim with the ball in my hands. When I play with a lower center of gravity, my legs are always in my shot instead of playing vertical out there where I don’t get the same explosion or legs into my shot.”
“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.”
“At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.”
“In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.”
“I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.”
“I remember playing in my mom’s closet with Kim as little girls – we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.”
“I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple.”
“I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read – anything from ‘Dragonlance,’ when I was 12, to ‘The Wheel of Time’ and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“It’s not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I’m a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.”
“I know my game. I know what I need to get better at and be better at.”
“My older brothers, they know how to keep my head straight and be thinking about what I need to do on the court. Now I have that in me, that mentality, that I want to get better and better every game. Thanks to them, they showed me the way.”
“I’m a student of the game.”
“I will try to make my career as long as possible. For me, it’s not about money, so I just love playing the game.”
“I think that’s the type of game I’m better at – faster paced, just moving the ball more around.”
“I just really love the game. I’m very hungry, and I’m looking forward to playing in the best league in the world.”
“When I’m playing in a close game, I’m out on the floor only trying to help the team win.”
“I’m adding moves to my post game. I’m really working on staying low. I’m working on my strength overall, especially my legs. That’s going to help me defensively as well.”
“My quiet place is in the gym. When I feel like going to church, it’s for me the MSG training facility and working on my game.”
“And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It’s a funny little game to play and it’s a slippery slope. I always say to myself I’m never going to give anything away because there’s never any point or benefit for me.”
“I’ve realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don’t want to get injured because then I can’t take care of my kids.”
“I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs to be repeatable and joyous.”
“Everyone likes fantasy to get away from everyday life, but I think ‘Game of Thrones’ is not like fairies and unicorns. It’s very relatable to everyday life. It’s not too fantastic – just a little bit.”
“There’s no one else like Hodor on ‘Game of Thrones.’ There’s no other character with that warmth, humanity, and a little bit of comic relief.”
“I’ve done fairly well as a performer and a DJ in the U.K., so ‘Game of Thrones’ really just opened up a whole new market for me.”
“’Game of Thrones’ was a game-changer for Northern Ireland. There’s going to be a massive gap when it goes.”
“I never stopped DJing through the entire ‘Game of Thrones’ process. I never saw the need to stop because I do love it so much.”
“When I started ‘Game of Thrones,’ the first three seasons, I still DJ’d every night before I went on set. I’d finish DJing at 3 A.M. and have to be on set at 5 A.M.”
“I had actually sent an audition tape for Simon Pegg’s movie ‘Hot Fuzz,’ which came to nothing. Four years after the film released, out of nowhere, I got a call saying the producers of ‘Game of Thrones’ wanted me to play Hodor after they had seen that particular tape.”
“I think that’s why ‘Game of Thrones’ is such a watercooler talking point: because there are these moments that are beautiful and terrible at the same time.”
“I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it’s not unlike the rest of the world, so I’m not as up in arms about it as I could be.”
“With regards to the fame, I wanted it, I worked for it, and when you get it, it’s something you want to turn on and off, but that’s part of the game.”
“It’s been rumored for almost a year that Tormund was going out and stuff like that. But that’s ‘Game of Thrones.’ The people you think are going to die don’t die. Then people will die in a moment when you did not expect them to die.”
“When you seek to do something, if you don’t know the whole game plan, you’re usually going to work against yourself.”
“What I’m doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like ‘Game of Thrones.’ Get that balance.”
“I hope I can show my talent in every game.”
“I’m a striker: I want to score in every game, work very hard, and then we’ll see what happens on the field.”
“There’s no such thing as a player who scores in every single game.”
“I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.”
“I started a podcast about ‘X-Files’ and ended up on it. Then I started a podcast about video games, and I’m in the new ‘Mass Effect’ game. I have to pick the stuff I love and do a podcast on it.”
“I’m obsessed with ‘Game of Thrones.’ I love comedies – I really like ’30 Rock’ and ‘Modern Family.’”
“In my new IFC comedy game show, ‘Bunk,’ we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer – giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.”
“It is true that I do not wear shoes as the host of ‘Bunk.’ I want ‘Bunk’ to feel like there’s a slight possibility that a confident homeless man just wondered into the studio and started hosting a game show.”
“The rules of game shows limit stuff so much. I remember on ‘Money From Strangers,’ being in the van – not even performing – and there was a lawyer there the entire time. ‘No, you can’t give money for that. Yes, you can give money for that. That’s a partial answer. That’s a full answer.’”
“Eric Bryant and Ethan Berlin, the creators of ‘Bunk,’ asked me to come get involved in very early process when they wanted to make a game show.”
“’Bunk’ is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created ‘Bunk.’”
“Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don’t be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it’s something called a ‘dead-cat bounce.’ People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.”
“I hope to be at the top of my game when I’m 65 or 70. I don’t want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I’m holding back anything, but there’s a bunch of junk I don’t know.”
“I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I’m very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn’t just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.”
“Me personally, I’m a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.”
“If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.”
“I’ve had a great time making the transition from playing to talking about the game, and there is no better place to talk football than NFL Network.”
“One thing I know is if I have my best player, I’m not going to let another team take him out of the game so I can throw to somebody else. I’m going to find a way to get my best player involved so they can’t take him away.”
“I believe that I’ve got a unique knowledge and understanding of this game, and I’m able to see it differently than a lot of people.”
“It’s a great game, and it’s done great things for me and my family, but the bottom line is when I’m done, I want to be able to walk away and be everything I need to be for my family.”
“My game is more a game of thinking than anything else.”
“At the end of the day, it’s not about starting a game in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl, or getting to the Hall of Fame. It’s about representing yourself in a way that represents your faith.”
“When I look at my situation, yes, there were a lot of things… small school, didn’t play much… but I knew that when I played, I won. And I also played in more of a pro system, so I understood the game of football. That helped me translate when I finally did get my opportunity.”
“It did not matter whether it was preseason, regular season, my first playoff game, or the Super Bowl, I was nervous. And all that meant was that it always mattered to me. Anytime I was putting myself on a line, it didn’t matter what it was, it was okay to be nervous because it was important to me. It was important to do my job well.”
“I could see myself doing more color in the future – I love being able to analyze game by game and share the stories with the players.”
“I’ve been nervous a number of times. Your first start. Playing in the Super Bowl. Your first Super Bowl. Very nerve-racking. The one thing that you can always fall back on is that you know what you are doing. You know how to play the game.”
“When I played, I didn’t have the strongest arm, and in a game, I never threw it as hard as I could, either.”
“I’d be walking off the court thinking I didn’t put everything out there, which was the last thing I wanted, so I just went out there and focused on my game, and it worked out great. It’s nice to know I can play at that level, but to do it week in, week out is a different challenge, and I want to be able to do that.”
“When I was around the ages of 9, 10, and 11, I loved watching Marat Safin because I found his game exciting. Since he retired, I would say that my idol has been Andy Murray.”
“Every game is its own thing in the playoffs. When you’re in them long enough, you understand. If a playoff series goes six or seven games, it’s like a rollercoaster. Your emotions are so up, then they’re so down. ‘You can’t do anything right! Then everything’s going your way!’”
“The mental side of sports, it’s huge. It’s such a massive part of the game.”
“The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.”
“It’s hard when you get down. You start pressing a little bit trying to get back in the game.”
“I’ve never played the jack-it-up kinda game; that’s just not who I am.”
“I never casually shoot shots, ever. I shoot the same way every time. I shoot the same shots that I’d shoot during the game.”
“Off-seasons hurt when you lose the last game.”
“There are definitely times during a game when you need someone to step up and make a play.”
“I know that I love the whole game of basketball, and that’s what I’ve always believed in.”
“I never really modeled my game after anybody.”
“I’ve always kinda guarded perimeter guys. I’m a little bit more comfortable guarding guys off screens. It kinda keeps me engaged in the game, locked in.”
“Until you’re a rookie, you don’t know what NBA game shape is.”
“I just want to be one of the greatest players to play. That’s my mind set. That’s how I approach the game.”
“It was great to be in the gym with Kobe. He’s so particular about the game and… why and how things work. That’s one thing I kind of love about him. If you ask him something, he’s going to tell you A, B, C, and D, and how that affects each play.”
“I put a lot of work into my game every single day.”
“I always tried to be an all-around player. In college, I felt like I needed to add to my game to get to another level, to get to the NBA. The NBA has really turned to positionless basketball, so it was very important to me to have an all-around game so I could stand out in front of other guys.”
“I’d like to guest star on ‘Game of Thrones.’ I love period pieces and dark material. I think the show has a good balance of that and some solid characters.”
“Every game is important.”
“For us, as players, I am concentrating on the game rather than worrying about the fans, but obviously, you do want the atmosphere – when you do go to certain grounds, it is difficult to play there when you have got the atmosphere, the fans are right on their side.”
“I gambled when I left QPR to go to Aston Villa half-way through the season when we were winning every Championship game, and that paid off. You just get a sense inside you, and you have to go.”
“It’s an enjoyable sport; we all love to play the game, and fans love to support it.”
“It’s always hard to sleep after a night game.”
“It’s a big part of my game, attacking.”
“English footballers are honest – they will run for 90-odd minutes – but that is not always what you need. Sometimes you need to rein back a bit and try and control the game with your passing.”
“It’s disappointing to lose a game with the chance to go into the semi-finals of the Champions League.”
“Sometimes you can almost play the game with a blindfold on.”
“I’ve been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it’s changed. It’s like on the arcade game, I’ve gone up to the next level.”
“I’ve worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I’m already prepared for the game. So when I’m listening to music pregame, it’s really just about personal enjoyment.”
“I’m a big video game fan.”
“When you’re playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it’s like a video game. There’s so much talent on the floor at once.”
“One game I’m always on is ‘NBA Jam.’ And ‘Bejeweled,’ games like that, and ‘Temple Run.’”
“I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.”
“I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”
“I don’t play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he’ll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He’s a fanatic.”
“At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever’s in the fridge. It’s sort of a game.”
“People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don’t think anyone could do that.”
“I played ball in college and semi-professional, and aside from the game and all that, the most valuable thing is the relationships. Who can care how many rings you have or how many championships you’ve won or how many records you broke. The most valuable stuff is the intangible stuff.”
“I got so broke that I had to take a job on a show called ‘BrainRush.’ That was purely for money. I was hosting this game show where it’s like ‘Cash Cab’ on a roller coaster, which is extreme, especially for me, since I hate roller coasters.”
“MySpace was kind of coming to an end when I got onto social media. So my first experience was with Facebook, and there was, like, a penguin game where you feed your penguins, and you have penguin friends.”
“I do watch ‘Revenge,’ ‘American Horror Story’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’ I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.”
“Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody’s going down.”
“As a driver, you have to accept that some years are more challenging than others. That’s part of the game.”
“You always want someone pushing you all the time who is competitive and at the top of their game so you can become a better driver.”
“It’s got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it’s going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.”
“I think where we’re still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.”
“I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, ‘This guy did not have his best game today’ rather than, ‘He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.’”
“There was this old soccer game called ‘Goal’ for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I’ve played everything from the old school games to the 360.”
“I remember – when I was little, I remember playing ‘Tecmo Bowl,’ and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch him play in real life.”
“I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.”
“The advantage doesn’t come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I’m sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy’s worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.”
“Should we go back to huddling? Should we go back to putting all these tight ends in there and have 250 yards a game? It doesn’t win anymore. So should we do it because that’s what the people before us did? No.”
“One game is never going to define a player.”
“Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching ‘Monday Night Football’ with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.”
“I always try to find better ways to do things. Whether it’s a game plan, a practice, a meeting, an interview, whatever it is. I’m going to find a way to find a way to analyze it and find a better way to do it. That’s my mindset. I’ve never been satisfied with anything. That’s just my mindset. I’m always trying to find a better way to do things.”
“In general, I do not feel the media is very positive toward game performances unless the players play perfectly.”
“But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.”
“When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.”
“I don’t know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That’s the only thing that really matters, and if you’re the best player, surely you’re going to have some effect on the game’s outcome.”
“You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.”
“Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally – you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.”
“Crossword puzzles, Sudoku… I’m good at all those things. It’s not daily, but I’ll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It’s my favorite game.”
“The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, ‘Madden’ is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.”
“When you think of Peyton Manning, you think ‘ambassador.’ The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.”
“An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers – I’m a Clipper fan – it’s to be seen as much as seeing the game.”
“Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I’ve said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.”
“You have to stay alert. You’ve got to keep raising your game.”
“I’ve pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I’m in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.”
“I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.”
“Watching AIDS play its evil game of give and take has made me understand why lobbying for increased research funding should be an urgent priority – not only for the gay community but for us all.”
“If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.”
“When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who’s ill.”
“David and I enjoy a relaxed meal around 8. We like to eat on the couch while we watch TV. Sometimes we channel-flip, but we also watch shows like ‘House of Cards,’ ‘The Crown,’ or ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“When you’re growing up, you play dress-up – it’s a game, it’s a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.”
“When I had my first show at Artists Space in 1979, I imagined my life like game show. There were two doors: one door had a big dollar sign on it, and the other just had sort of a blurry picture of a newspaper – the money door or the critical response and acclaim door.”
“The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.”
“Symmetries are the playing field on which the physical world works and which determine the rules of the game. The symmetries of nature determine for us things that remain constant, that can’t be changed. Those are the guideposts in physics, the quantities like energy and momentum.”
“You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.”
“I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.”
“I played one game, and one game played me.”
“People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it’s part of what we do.”
“I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game.”
“I don’t feel as if I have to force anything. I just have to play my game.”
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
“What Scientology offers is a bigger game. You’re part of an elite group saving the planet.”
“You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.”
“There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.”
“My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.”
“You know, I’m just 6’9″ and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.”
“I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.”
“I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.”
“Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.”
“I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they’re putting on television, series like ‘The Americans’ and ‘Game of Thrones,’ it’s so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we’re interested in.”
“I had a Commodore, and then I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and it being a total game-changer. And the hours that I would spend playing the video game and trying to convince my mother that it was improving my hand-eye coordination. It was a worthy use of time. It made my hand-eye coordination better!”
“Green synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and not even know it, because the ball still gets airborne. Practice nets are awful, too. Swing a weighted club instead.”
“One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.”
“I adore the game of golf. I won’t ever retire.”
“When it comes to the game of life, I figure I’ve played the whole course.”
“It’s such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you’re trying to achieve.”
“Yeah, I feel good. Good about my game and my life.”
“Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.”
“I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.”
“Cersei in ‘Game of Thrones’ is quite solid and stiff.”
“I love basketball! When I’m flying, and I have on sweats, a hat, and sneakers, people always assume that I’m a high school kid going to an away game. And I always say no, I’m a fan of the game.”
“I was watching a lot of ‘Game of Thrones’ while I was breastfeeding a newborn.”
“How you play the game is for college ball. When you’re playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.”
“Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don’t even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.”
“I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.”
“I don’t usually comment on columnists’ ideas of what I’m thinking. That’s a dangerous game to get into.”
“I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for ‘Nashville Skyline,’ wrote between takes. So I’d try to sing new songs off the top of my head. I had rather less than spectacular success on that. But a lot of my songs were done that way.”
“Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.”
“A game is defined by the players’ strategy domains and payoff functions.”
“There are two kinds of games in economics. One is the game where people use only legal moves. Then there is the true game, the one like real life, where the strategies and moves people make, some of them contain illegal gains.”
“A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn’t need enforcement.”
“The Champions League is a really tough tournament, and every single game is really special and difficult.”
“I am not someone who watches every game from the Bundesliga, the Spanish League, or even the Premier League. Of course, if there is a good game, like in the Champions League, I will watch it.”
“I try all the time to improve in the game, training all the time, and to help my team with assists or goals.”
“It’s important on the pitch to have fun, to enjoy the game, because it generates a good feeling around the club.”
“You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation – whether it’s a poker game or a bobsled team or a band – it’s gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.”
“I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.”
“I don’t know so much about making it, because I think of myself as a working actor who’s always got my eye on what’s going to be the next job. I’ve been acting for 22 years, and I think there’s something to be said for simply staying in the game.”
“I’m pretty much game for anything.”
“We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of ‘Survivor’ on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody’s going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.”
“Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think ‘Mad Men’ is wonderful. I think ‘Breaking Bad’ is wonderful. But let’s remember they’re about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.”
“I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.”
“If you just play your game, the stats will come.”
“I just feel like I try to get out of each game healthy.”
“I’m not really worried about how many carries I get or anything, I just want to make sure we win the game. So if I need 50 carries to win the game, I’m going to get it.”
“If I only get eight carries, and we win the game, I’m fine with that.”
“I take pride in staying in the game.”
“If I have 38 touches and we win the game, that’s enough. If I have 38 touches and we lose, then I didn’t get enough.”
“I don’t necessarily care about the money aspect of it. I just want to be valued where I’m at. If I am playing this game, I want to set standards for all the other running backs behind me, like Todd Gurley and Ezekiel Elliott, Melvin Gordon, guys like that.”
“I think I’m changing the game. In that sense, I’m what Steph Curry is to basketball. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t necessarily think Steph Curry is the best basketball player, but he changed the game, so he’s going to always go down as being remembered. Now everyone wants to shoot the 3 and shoot it from deep.”
“I play this game to win Super Bowls and be a Hall of Famer.”
“I love the game of football.”
“I make plays in the passing game, blocking, doing everything.”
“The only time I’m really upset is if we lose the game and I feel like I wasn’t involved.”
“There are times where maybe I don’t have as many carries, and we still win the game, I’m going to be fine. I’m not really trippin’ about the stats if we’re winning the game.”
“If I’m on an away game or on my way to the stadium or on a bus ride, I listen to more mellow music. Laid-back, chill, like The Weeknd, Drake, something like that.”
“I just want to go out there and do whatever I can to win the game.”
“I like college football, but I’m a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.”
“I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.”
“The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.”
“When I was a kid, I used to play a game called ‘Grand Prix Two.’ Interlagos was always the first race of the season on that, and I never really got much past the second race. I would always restart the season, so I always seemed to be doing Interlagos – it was a real pain!”
“Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.”
“My driving and irons are the best part of my game. Growing to be 5-foot-11 has certainly helped.”
“You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You’re going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you’re lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.”
“Part of the game of investing is to come into your own. You must find some way that perfectly fits your personality because there is some element of a zero sum game in investing. If you buy, somebody else has to sell. And when you sell, somebody has to buy. You can’t both be right.”
“I’ve never done a big series like ‘Game of Thrones’ before. All I knew was that it was HBO, and I’d seen what they had done with ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘The Wire.’ But when I started reading the script, it was a no-brainer. Yes, yes, yes. Gold. Every time I turned the page.”
“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.”
“I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.”
“You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.”
“Something people wouldn’t expect me to do is I play this computer game called ‘Runescape.’ I’ve played ‘Runescape’ since forever. Since I was, like, six. It is still one of my favourite games ever.”
“I didn’t come in the game tryna be friends with everybody. I do this for my family.”
“They say I’m the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.”
“I’m the outcast of the hip-hop game.”
“The old way of coming up in the game is over.”
“I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it’s a balancing game.”
“I just want to play my game.”
“Lee Chong Wei is no doubt the best men’s singles opponent I’ve played, and this gives me extra motivation to raise my game each time I play against him.”
“A lot of these reality-TV shows people go on, they come off, and nothing happens. You never hear from them again. Fifteen seconds of fame is not the name of the game. No matter how big you break, or how many people you break in front of, you still have to slowly build a fan base to have anything loyal and lasting from people.”
“It’s not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.”
“Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I’ve worked on, it’s part of me.”
“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”
“Whether it’s a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game – I play the same. I’m always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.”
“I can’t be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.”
“It’s a zero sum game: the Court either expands individual rights or expands the government’s right to regulate individuals.”
“Betty White is so old that on her first game show ever, the prize was fire.”
“When I decided to do ‘The Celebrity Apprentice,’ there was absolutely no question that I would play the game for GMHC.”
“When I watch kids play basketball, they don’t know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don’t know why.”
“I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game.”
“I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.”
“Gaming is one of those things that’s pretty amazing because when you think about it, everybody wants to game; whether you’re a casual gamer, or you’re an enthusiast gamer, there’s a large market for us.”
“The biotech game is quickly changing. The people must demand their use of these treatments.”
“People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I’m playing a longer game than that.”
“The nature of the game is pain.”
“To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.”
“I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.”
“My video game character is a bit better looking than me, actually. I don’t think he has to worry about his hair getting messed up.”
“With too much wash and wear, sweaters get fuzzy or start to pill. Having a fabric shaver is a game changer. It makes my sweaters look brand-new.”
“If I can run, I’m not going to sit out any game. I’m here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.”
“You always feel pretty good after a bye, after a couple of days off. Not having a game, you freshen up a little.”
“Really, it hasn’t changed for female comics; it’s still hard for females to really enter the game.”
“In Massillon, you either hated football, or you loved it. On a Friday night in the fall, I don’t know what anybody did if they weren’t at, quote-unquote, ‘The Game.’”
“Oliver Kahn against Valencia in 2001 – this was the first Champions League game I remember. I was a Bayern fan.”
“Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.”
“I don’t know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.”
“The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.”
“Age is just a number when you possess real quality and a game plan.”
“When a game runs out of your hands is when you look for someone like Pogba to hold the team together and give them rhythm, but I feel he only plays for himself.”
“Yeah, I miss it. You don’t just break off a friendship you’ve had with a sport, and with all those you’ve met all over the country. We’ve got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there’s nothing in the game of baseball that hasn’t happened to me.”
“Jim Crow was king… and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.”
“You can’t be afraid to make errors! You can’t be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.”
“Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn’t give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.”
“There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.”
“In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I’d make one a week and finally I’d pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I’m trying to keep it down to one a season.”
“How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.”
“I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.”
“When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.”
“I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.”
“I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.”
“You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here.”
“Boeing does a great job in introducing product that kind of changes the game.”
“I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.”
“Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.”
“The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.”
“I always tried to defend high up the pitch, to be in the opposition’s half and play the game there.”
“OK, Wayne Rooney is always the center of attention, and I always have to answer questions about him. But Wayne is Wayne, and he will always contribute in a game.”