Gamer Quotes - Page 5

• It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Games, Satan

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• The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

  Mike Gordon

  Player, Thinking, Bass

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• If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Team, Player

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• I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

  Chely Wright

  Dad, Player, Bass

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• I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Office, Want, Boxes

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• The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Money, Business

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.43, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Games, Buttons, Fighter

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• 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.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Football, Hurt

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• Im a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play World of Warcraft, Im a massive gamer, I have Star Trek outfits.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Stars, Fantasy Novels, Play

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• That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Freedom, Player, Democracy

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• 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.

  Greta Garbo

  Movie, Stars, Mean

  Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

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• No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

  Ralph Nader

  Vegas, Gambling, Presidential

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• It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together.

  Michael Bruce

  Kissing, Together, Band

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• As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

  Neil Innes

  Moving, Player, Rocks

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• There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for a 16-year-old and for a 10-year-old, and so, you know, I make choices everyday for my kids as to what games I think is appropriate for them to play. And, you know, in the end it's up to the parents, it's up to the gamers themselves working with their parents, if they're under 21, to make the smartest choice for the games they play.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Kids, Thinking, Impact

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• EA called my agency and made us an offer and I was really enthusiastic about this, really excited to do it. I had Need for Speed: Underground already, the first one. And I'm a bit of a gamer, and definitely car enthusiast, so I've done a lot of things to my cars that people can do in this game. Everything from after-market kits to styling them, exteriorly with wheels, rims, and kits. You name it I have some fun doin' that.

  Brooke Burke

  Fun, Agency, Games

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• We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Thinking, Hands, Cards

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• Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.

  James Paul Gee

  Games, Play, Choices

  "10 Truths About Books and What They Have to Do With Video Games" by James Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for todays gamers.

  Sid Meier

  Games, People, Goal

  Interview with Kristan Reed, www.eurogamer.net. June 12, 2004.

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• I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

  Gary Gygax

  Play, Groups, Links

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• That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

  Joe Mantegna

  Play, Cracks, Cards

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• Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

  Richard Roeper

  Gambling, Cards, Casinos

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• Annika has the type of game I want to work on. She's just so consistent. Hopefully I'll be like that one day.

  Michelle Wie

  Games, One Day, Want

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• I love the game of baseball.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Football, Player, Grease

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