Games Quotes - Page 36

• People are still trying to figure out who I am. Most people just say I play the game the right way.

  Dwyane Wade

  Who I Am, Play, People

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• Sometimes the only way you can win is to stay out of the game.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Winning, Way, Sometimes

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• To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Winning, Player

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• We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals.

  Bryan Robson

  Goal, Trying

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• I work on my game daily. Because I'm never satisfied, never going to be.

  Tracy McGrady

  Satisfied

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• If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bored, Hide And Seek, Ifs

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• Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

  Alex Ferguson

  Winning, Titles, Defence

  "Mauricio Pochettino's Spurs have balance to lay title claim against Manchester City" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2016.

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• War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

  Scott Ritter

  War, Nintendo, Video

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• Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Block, Hitting

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• A lot of the techniques are similar in MMA. You just have to look at your opponent and their technique and tweak your game plan a little bit.

  Dan Henderson

  Mma, Technique, Looks

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• It's not always the best team that wins the game it's the team that plays better.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Team, Winning, Play

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• Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Memories, Understanding, Chess

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• In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Good Luck

  On War Chapter 1, 21 (p. 86)

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• Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.

  William Eckhardt

  Emotional, Feel Good, Balance

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• It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Glorious, Uncertainty

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.43, The Floating Press

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• A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

  Sam Snead

  Iron, Apples, Firsts

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• Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.

  George Carlin

  Country, Golf, Space

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!

  David LaChapelle

  Kids, Play, Naked

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• This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

  Eddie Vedder

  Men, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Feb 17, 2015

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• When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Hands, People

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• Chiropractic care works for me. I've been seeing a chiroprctor and he's really been helping me out a lot. Chiropractic's been a big part of my game.

  Joe Montana

  Chiropractic Care, Helping, Bigs

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• Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

  Douglas Coupland

  Vegas, Las Vegas, Gone

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• I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the game. I do my mathematics in my head. I sit down for a hard day's work and I write nothing all day. I just think. And I walk up and down because that helps keep me awake, it keeps the blood circulating, and I think and think.

  Michael Atiyah

  Writing, Thinking, Blood

  "'I'm a bit of a jack of all trades'". Interview with James Meek, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2004.

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• I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.

  Brian Molko

  Sex, Confused, Mean

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• For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.

  Fabio Capello

  Past, Lasts, Study

  "England boss Fabio Capello is in dreamland as he sets his sights on South Africa". www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2009.

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