Games Quotes - Page 17

• The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.

  Steven Biko

  Tired, Want, Should

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• An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters.

  Steve Goodier

  Decision, Important, Would Be

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• ... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.

  David W. Orr

  Moving, Air, Law

  David W. Orr (2011). “Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr”, p.113, Island Press

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• I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

  Pat Summitt

  Eight, Numbers, Different

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• One time I dropped a fly ball in Milwaukee and, after the game, the writers asked me what happened. I told them, 'Well, I was looking up and a UFO flew right across. It was weird. I never saw anything like that in my life.' Man, I was only joking and they wrote it up and put it in the paper.

  Jesse Barfield

  Men, Saws, Balls

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• Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.

  Jack Charlton

  Soccer, Men

  1967 For Leeds and England.

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• The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.

  Rickey Henderson

  Cocky, Mean, People

  "Rickey rules". Interview with Dennis Manoloff, www.cleveland.com. July 25, 2009.

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• I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it's over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.

  Steve Goodier

  Sports, Team, Believe

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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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• I think the secret is to understand that you still want to be part of the game. To do so, you have to forget all the victories you've managed to get in the previous years and have a great humility. You also need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home.

  Valentino Rossi

  Humility, Hard Work, Home

  "I still have the strength to go head-to-head with my rivals". Yamaha Motor Intreview, global.yamaha-motor.com. 2014.

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• Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Pride, Roles, Actors

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Life is a game, and it's much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed.

  Bill Murray

  Fun, Light, Play

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• I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could fit together. That was a really fun game to figure out how that worked.

  Margaux Williamson

  Fun, Struggle, Together

  "'This Flat-Screen World'". Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith, logger.believermag.com. May 18, 2014.

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• I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Distance, Years, Worry

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• I'm very specific about scripts that I like. I don't have a master plan or, like, a game plan. I don't have a chart that I'm following or anything like that. I'm very much playing it by ear. Certain things just happen and it's undeniable, you just go that way. But I don't have a specific path I'm following, I'm just playing it by ear.

  Zac Efron

  Ears, Way, Scripts

  "Me & Orson Welles - Zac Efron interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

  Laurie Anderson

  Fighting, Play, Way

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January 2012.

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• It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

  Michael Haneke

  Different, Able, Film

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• In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.

  Michael Haneke

  Video, Violence, Irony

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• Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

  John McEnroe

  Track, Tennis, Guy

  "Why Does America Suck at Tennis?". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Years, Fifa, Fans

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I believe your success is based off what your goals are. Are you trying to feed your family or have plaques on the wall and be broke? In that case, I think the game is in a better place. We have all heard of famous artists who are broke. Then we know of artists who may have had only a song or two on radio, but have a million or two dollars off that quick come up.

  Yo Gotti

  Song, Wall, Believe

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• It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Writing, Dangerous

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• I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• The players today reflect how much the game has evolved and changed both in style and culture. [...] The game now has a wider appeal to a larger market.

  Michael Jordan

  Player, Style, Culture

  "Q&A: Michael Jordan on high school and the Jordan Classic". Interview with Christopher Lawlor, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 14, 2005.

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• I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Couple, Golf, Thinking

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