Game Over Quotes

• The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Games, Ego, Sake

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• Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.

  Zadie Smith

  Games, Numbers, Next Level

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• No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Games, Perfect, Get Better

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

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• Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.

  David Levithan

  Games, Over You, Facts

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.180, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  David Cage

  Player, Games, Designer

  "No 'game over' in Beyond: Two Souls, but Jodi can die" by Jessica Conditt, www.engadget.com. August 22, 2013.

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• I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

  Ernest Cline

  Favorite Words, Games, Two

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.14, Random House

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• I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.

  Mark Coleman

  Pain, Games, Lenses

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Games, Stronger

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• 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.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Games, Pitching

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• We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Winning, Games

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• Como un angel," I whisper. "Is our game over?" she asks nervously. "It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game.

  Simone Elkeles

  Angel, Games, Next

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• Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead... now that's what you call risk!

  Dave Hampton

  Children, Future, Games

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• If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER

  Mark Suster

  Games, Fundraising, Done

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• The ‘friend zone’ is like the penalty box of dating, only you can never get out. Once a girl decides you’re her ‘friend,’ it’s game over. You’ve become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like her brother, or a lamp.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Thinking, Games, Challenges

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• I'd take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don't respect the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Strong, Passion, Games

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• 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!

  Jason Aldean

  Baseball, School, Opportunity

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• She's the coolest person in the world...I don't date what the person does...You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15. And that's when you know. It's like, oh, my God, game over.... Listen, there are a lot of women in this country, in many countries, who date men for their money. Okay? That's despicable. Right? That's not what we're talking about here. Whatever does it for you, man.

  Adam Levine

  Country, Teenager, Mean

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• The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40 yards. Ballstriking is where I'm trying to improve, yes, but more to eliminate big numbers than make birdies.

  Phil Mickelson

  Winning, Games, Numbers

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• After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’s the thing, you see? Look at us, Akira. After all this time, we can finally put things right. Remember, old chap, how we used to play those games? Over and over? How we used to pretend we were detectives searching for my father? Now we’re grown, we can at last put things right.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Children, Father, Games

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2001). “When We Were Orphans”, p.321, Vintage

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• I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I plan to be in Denver. I haven't missed a lot of games over the years. But there's a bunch I wish I had.

  Lamar Hunt

  Years, Games, Nfl

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• He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place – well then, game over.

  Richard Siken

  Heart, Thinking, Games

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• It makes me think about how you hear these young people say, "I see you, man." Or even if you go and watch some basketball game over the summer and the announcer goes, "I see you," and you see that player smile. You know what I mean? That thing of just being recognized, especially when you do a little subtle thing. I don't know.

  Paul Beatty

  Basketball, Summer, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you're about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.

  Larry Bird

  Thinking, Games, Trying

  Interview with Will Femia, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2013.

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• If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

  Bill Nye

  Civilization, Games, Earth

  "Bill Nye: U.S. risks losing its space edge" by Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2012.

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