Games Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• I used everything as a positive
  to make me a better person and
  a better player. I have no regrets.
  Everytime I had to play a big game,
  I played a big game. I used some of
  the skepticism as a positive and motivation.

  Chris Osgood

  Motivation, Regret, Player

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• I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Overcoming, Plenty

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• Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Artist, Names, Insecurity

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• He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.665, Simon and Schuster

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• Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

  Lou Gerstner

  Business, Makeup, Organization

  "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround". Book by Louis V. Gerstner Jr., 2002.

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• The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

  Robert Payne

  Men, People, Ordinary

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Robert Payne, "A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society", p. 279, 1975.

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• Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

  Esther Hicks

  Change, Thinking, Winning

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• politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Getting High, Tactics, Ugly

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.33, Northwestern University Press

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• The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Play, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Sports, Balls, World

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• To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee.

  Efim Bogoljubov

  Knights, Nails, Chess

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• Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band!
  Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!

  John Betjeman

  Girl, Twilight, Hands

  'Subaltern's Love-Song' (1945)

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• Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that
  it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

  Nick Saban

  Soccer, Football, Numbers

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• The changes that happened in my life from doing these movies are so permanent that I don't think I'll ever really say goodbye, it'll always be a part of me, the Hunger Games.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Goodbye, Thinking

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• Obviously it's one of my biggest wins, and especially after a long layoff, to come back out and win in my fifth start means a lot. I've been working hard on my game and been working hard on me, and so it means a great deal to have some success right out of the gate. It gives me a lot of confidence, too.

  Dustin Johnson

  Success, Confidence, Mean

  "Johnson rallies to win by 1 at Doral". www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2015.

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• Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

  Demetri Martin

  People, Hot, Different

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• The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.

  Herb Caen

  Baseball, Moving, Forever

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• Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Change, Real, Fighting

  "New Day" by Chris Cuomo, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2015.

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• Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

  Chip R. Bell

  Giving, Advice, Balls

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.96, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?

  Ty Cobb

  Jobs, Fighting, Men

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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• I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Thinking, Victory

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• I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.

  Dane Cook

  Taken, Thinking, People

  "Dane Cook Goes for Laughs in Good Luck Chuck". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 13, 2007.

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• I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.

  Ice T

  Cat, Winning, Hustle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.

  Don Rickles

  Watches, Needs, Balls

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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