Games Quotes - Page 15

• My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.

  Robin Gibb

  Nintendo, Whole Life, Has Beens

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

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• My favorite part (of the game) is knowing that they're comfortable, knowing that, no matter
  what, they can count on me. What I really enjoy most about catching is the
  relationship with a pitcher. The most important thing is they can relax when I'm
  back there and know that I did my job, I did some homework on hitters.

  Jorge Posada

  Jobs, Knowing, Relax

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• You have to understand what they (pitchers) do. That's my job. You have to find a way to get them
  through the game if they're not feeling good. When everything is going good and
  they're feeling one-hundred percent, it's my job to keep them that way. And you know what? If I see something, I'm going to let them know.

  Jorge Posada

  Jobs, Feel Good, Feelings

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• I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.

  Dave Winfield

  Guy, Enough, Figures

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• I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

  Smoky Joe Wood

  Art, World, Body

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• Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

  Eugene Fama

  Zero, Winning, Cost

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• Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Play, Sweat, Amusement

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

  Ian Botham

  Stress, Umpires, Important

  1980 Ian Botham on Cricket.

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• Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Light, Benefits, Mercy

  "Aids to Scoutmastership". Book by Robert Baden-Powell, 1919.

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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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• No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  War, Blessing, Soldier

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• The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Stars, Team, Broken

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• The only difference between me and the fans is I can't eat or drink during the game and you guys can't make moves. Besides that, we are pretty much the same people.

  Ozzie Guillen

  Moving, Differences, People

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• That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

  R. K. Milholland

  Marriage, Lying, Winning

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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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• 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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• Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Karma, Philosophy, Buddhism

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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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• Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

  Gay Talese

  Passion, People, Imperfection

  Gay Talese (2013). “The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World”, p.1, Random House

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• Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

  Charlotte Moss

  Math, Design, Decorating

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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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• Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Growth, Investing

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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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