Games Quotes

• Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

  Mike Singletary

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

  75 Copy quote

• Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 17, 2017

  351 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  189 Copy quote

• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  447 Copy quote

• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  588 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

  400 Copy quote

• Life is more fun if you play games.

  Roald Dahl

  Fun, Playing Games, Life Is

  Roald Dahl (2012). “My Uncle Oswald”, p.128, Penguin

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.

  Kevin Garnett

  People, Like Me, Ifs

  "Sunday Conversation: Kevin Garnett". Interview with Stephen A. Smith, www.espn.com. May 10, 2004.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Clearly, when you win everything, it's fun. That doesn't necessarily mean you love the game more.

  Roger Federer

  Fun, Mean, Winning

  8 Copy quote

• You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

  Chris Evert

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

  52 Copy quote

• Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Fun

  42 Copy quote

• Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you.

  Adolf Hitler

  Player, Life Is Like, Ifs

  450 Copy quote

• Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

  Terry Brooks

  Play, Deception

  Terry Brooks (2009). “The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1: Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD! - The Black Unicorn - Wizard at Large”, p.349, Del Rey

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• What doesn't kill you makes you smaller

  Mario

  Funny, Humorous, Character

  50 Copy quote

• One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Life, Player, Long

  56 Copy quote

• Games lubricate the body and the mind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sports, Educational, Mind

  "Edge-Tools of Speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou (p. 177), 1899.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

  J. D. Salinger

  Success, Boys, Play

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Dan Rather

  Country, Grandmother, Playing Games

  Dan Rather (1995). “The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist”, Hearst Books

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.151, Open Road Media

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sorry, Play, Done

  9 Copy quote

• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

  Eric Berne

  Gambling, Compromise, Intimacy

  46 Copy quote

• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

  216 Copy quote

  Show source

• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sarcastic, Sports, Football

  84 Copy quote

• Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

  Suzanne Collins

  Movie, Odds, President Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

  73 Copy quote

  Show source