Games Quotes - Page 29

• I'm a big believer in the Wii. I love the physicality of the Wii controller, and how you can get the feeling of throwing a bowling ball or swinging a golf club. Those are the kinds of games I really like.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Golf, Feelings, Balls

  Kikizo interview, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.

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• I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Men, Squash, Differences

  Kikizo Interview, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.

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• I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Believe, Talking, Simplicity

  "Meet Nolan Bushnell, the man who created the videogames industry". Interview with Steve Boxer, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Strong, Believe, Home

  "Meet Nolan Bushnell, the man who created the videogames industry". Interview with Steve Boxer, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Appreciate, Facts

  Kikizo Interview, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.

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• When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water...You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Writing, Golf

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I have a feeling that when you're on the cover, they supe up all your abilities in the game to a pretty high level. I'm excited to see what that equates to, like if I can throw the ball 100 yards in the air or something.

  Drew Brees

  Air, Feelings, Yards

  "A Half Dozen Questions for Drew Brees". Interview with John B. Thompson, www.gq.com. April 23, 2010.

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• Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place.

  Karen Armstrong

  Believe, Fall, Play

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.

  Alan Cumming

  People, Like You, Exciting

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 12, 2010.

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• My favorite thing about being linked to Oakley is getting to hang with the cool people, the cool athletes - like the X-Games guys. Those guys play sports where they can really hurt themselves, and, well, I just play golf. I'm like the wimpy guy over here.

  Bubba Watson

  Sports, Hurt, Athlete

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Thinking, Two

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but both have a lot of humanity and a lot of humility. They always give you the energy... with Ferguson when we played a game it was like it was his first game - he's so passionate and gives you ambition every time. And Ken works the same way - they're very similar.

  Eric Cantona

  Ambition, Humility, Giving

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Kings, Crazy

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.

  Eric Cantona

  Dream, Football, Children

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

  Audra McDonald

  Doors, Play, Trying

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• Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

  Heraclitus

  Kings, Children, Moving

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• Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Liars, Lying, Opposites

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• Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of chess and the accomplishment of a good game as an art, and something to be admired no less than an artist's canvas or the product of a sculptor's chisel. Chess is a mental diversion rather than a game. It is both artistic and scientific.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Accomplishment, Training

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• If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.

  Bobby Fischer

  Alekhine, Ifs

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• Chess is not a game, but a disease.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Disease, Chess

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• To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.

  Doyle Brunson

  Worry, Police, Done

  "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story (Part I)". Interview with Nolan Dalla, mobile.pokerschoolonline.com. 2008.

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• Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on.

  Felix Unger

  Goes On, May, Comes And Goes

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• War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Lying, Play

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• ...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Television, Computer

  Stephen Fry (2010). “Paperweight”, p.176, Random House

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• We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

  Paul Kurtz

  Art, Good Life, Cheer

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