Games Quotes - Page 39

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

  Tracy McGrady

  Satisfied

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Block, Hitting

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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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• If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.

  Barack Obama

  Lasts, Serious, Building

  "Boosting Reading Skills: Will 'Common Core' Experiment Pay Off?". "PBS Hewshour", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2012.

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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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• 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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• I'm a chill guy, a very normal guy. I hang out with my friends, play video games. I'm just a normal kid.

  Andrew Wiggins

  Kids, Play, Guy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Expectations, Facts, Twists

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film ‘The Past’". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

  Jack London

  Life, Hurt, May

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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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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• 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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• Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

  Ben Zobrist

  Identity, Statistics, Difficult

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place. I would inevitably lose that battle and eat too much in one sitting and end up really mad at myself.

  Alison Sweeney

  Long, Mad, Battle

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• It's funny. I competed against a 13-year old girl at the Winter X Games. I looked down at her birth date and it said 2000. I was like, "Huh, I wonder if she even knows what Y2K is?" But I guess I've just been able to build a foundation.

  Kelly Clark

  Girl, Winter, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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