Games Quotes - Page 23

• The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Police, Revolution

  The Secret Agent ch. 4 (1907)

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• The kids know what I'm doing when I exercise, and that's powerful. So don't just tell your kids to go play outside. Take a moment off your computer, put on your tennis shoes, hop outside and help them start their game and run off some energy.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Powerful, Kids

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• Half the game is 90% mental.

  Yogi Berra

  Half

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• I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.

  Robert Benchley

  Attitude, Two, Chess

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.24, Glendower Media

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• My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.

  Robert Benchley

  Running, Mistake, Player

  Robert Benchley (1925). “Of All Things”

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• I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Civilization, Technique

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• This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Art, Swans, Hunters

  1935 Solstice,'Love the Wild Swan'.

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• This is an opportunity to create a better future for the NFL, to improve the game for our fans, and to expand the economic benefits for the players and teams. Staying with the status quo is not an option. The world has changed for everyone, including the NFL and our fans. We must get better in everything we do ... If both sides compromise and give a little, everyone will get a lot, especially the fans.

  Roger Goodell

  Team, Opportunity, Player

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• Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.

  Bo Ryan

  Taken, Two, Balls

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• God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Fear, War, Marine

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• Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Grateful, Dirty, Men

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• If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.

  Magic Johnson

  Reality, Hands, Justice

  "Magic Johnson says Donald Sterling should sell Clippers" by Matt Moore, www.cbssports.com. April 27, 2014.

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• I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

  Richard Sherman

  Nfl, Appreciate, Trying

  "Richard Sherman rips 49ers' Michael Crabtree" by Eric Branch, www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2014.

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• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  V. S. Pritchett

  School, Eye, Class

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 95), 1980.

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• I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super Bowl champions.... I immediately thought of all the great players on the team. I was in awe, as I had watched these soon-to-be legends play on television. They epitomized for me what football was all about: the love of the game, the professional approach, and the desire to win.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Team, Winning

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• ... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.

  John Horton Conway

  Science, Math, Numbers

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• I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.

  Monica Seles

  Nice, Happy Life, Play

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• Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.

  Phillip Daniels

  Football, School, Player

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• Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

  Karl Kraus

  Chess, Diplomacy, Nations

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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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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• It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.

  Brady Quinn

  Jobs, Thinking, Play

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• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  Beau Willimon

  Ambition, Thinking, Play

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• I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Play

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• That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Play, Evil

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