Games Quotes - Page 10

• When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Japan, Decision, Looks

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• It's good to be compared with Randy Johnson, and it's wonderful to be compared to all the best pitchers in the game.

  Johan Santana

  Wonderful, All The Best, Pitcher

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• The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they'd never let you forget it.

  Smoky Joe Wood

  Cities, Errors, Keys

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• Instant replay is going to be awesome. For too long, tennis has been stuck in its traditions, which is part of its strength as a game. But you have to be able to change some things and get fans interested.

  Patrick McEnroe

  Long, Tennis, Fans

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• White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

  Diane Abbott

  Play, White, People

  "Diane Abbott: 'White people love playing divide and rule'", www.telegraph.co.uk. January 5, 2012.

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• It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, Rivals, Lace

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• If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child's needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Football, Mother, Children

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• Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

  Emily Murphy

  Favors, Chance, Clergy

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• For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

  Eamon de Valera

  Football, Men, Together

  "Judging Dev : A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon De Valera" by Royal Irish Academy, 2007.

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• Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.

  Andy Pettitte

  New York, Men, Winning

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• If I need to help my team and play a different position for that game because somebody is hurt or they want to give a day off to somebody, I'll do it.

  Albert Pujols

  Hurt, Team, Play

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• As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.

  Wanda Coleman

  Dream, Reality, Men

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• Autumn
  Into earth's lap does throw
  Brown apples gay in a game of play,
  As the equinoctials blow.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Autumn, Gay, Blow

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “October”

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• The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

  Earl Blaik

  Fun, Sacrifice, Essence

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• No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Team, Humor

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• Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Men, Two

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.

  Mark McGwire

  Years, Done, Way

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• Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Agreement, Investing, Chance

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.245, Macmillan

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• Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

  Ronald Ross

  Investing, Active Management, Littles

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• Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.

  Burton Malkiel

  Yield, People, Effort

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• It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added)... Hindsight plays tricks on our minds... often distorts the past and encourages us to play hunches and outguess other investors, who in turn are playing the same game. For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results... our actions lead to much lower returns than can be achieved by just staying in the market.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Past, Play, Mind

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• Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Successful, Player

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• The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Fans, Pouring, Uniforms

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• There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

  Frank Robinson

  Play, Guy, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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