Games Quotes - Page 37

• The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Play, Forever

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• Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Trying, Today, Tomorrow

  Cal Ripken, Donald T. Phillips (2008). “Get in the Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance That Make the Difference”, p.136, Penguin

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• In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

  Raph Koster

  Drug

  Raph Koster (2013). “Theory of Fun for Game Design”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.

  Rodney Atkins

  Football, Fun, Winning

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• I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.

  Brian Andreas

  Play, Would Be, Noise

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• War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Moving, Thinking

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• I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family. I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.

  Jase Robertson

  Simple, Love Is, Hunting

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• The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or out on the water as well.

  Jon Lester

  Perseverance, Hunting, Fishing

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• I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"

  Ken Jennings

  Writing, Blue, Best Wishes

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• I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here.

  Tom Cruise

  Cities, Toronto, Used

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• When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

  Ryan Giggs

  Disappointment, Play, Waiting

  "EXCLUSIVE: When Gary met Ryan... 'I've never, ever experienced a shock like that on the football pitch,' says Giggs on United's Champions League exit". Interview with Gary Neville, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 9, 2013.

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• Nine games? It's too long.

  Derek Jeter

  Long, Nine

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• In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.

  Mike Scioscia

  Baseball, Hurt, Mistake

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• When you make people feel important, you're going to be ahead of the game.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Important, Feels

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• I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game.

  Thurman Munson

  Average, People, Important

  "The House That Thurman Munson Built" by Michael Paterniti, www.esquire.com. August 3, 2013.

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• We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Winning, Preparation

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• I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

  Andy Rooney

  Football, Hate, Years

  "Journalist Andy Rooney Dies at 92" by Joel Siegel, abcnews.go.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

  Akio Morita

  Moving, Creating, Acquisition

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• When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sports, Tired, Night

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• Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

  George Carlin

  Baseball, Football, Struggle

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball. I just try to take advantage of it every night. I got the trust of my teammates and my coaching staff to go in there and let it go.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Men, Night

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• You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared...  Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal.  It's a constant. There will be days when you don't feel on top of your game, or meetings in which you aren't at your best, but your commitment remains constant. No compromises.

  Michael Jordan

  Commitment, Years, Excellence

  Michael Jordan, Mark Vancil (2006). “Driven from Within”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

  John Wooden

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• Never complain about the officiating. It does no good. During the game I don't want to be fighting two opponents.

  John Wooden

  Fighting, Two, Doe

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• Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Football, Country, Speech

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