Games Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.

  Stewart Cink

  Character, Golf, Play

  "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.

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• I was really fortunate. I don't believe in luck so I was really fortunate. God really blessed me in terms of my health. ... I was really healthy. But I tried to do my part in terms of preparation, in terms of perseverance. I tried to do my part to make sure that I was always ready to play and try to stay ahead of the game. I tried to beat people with my mind. I wasn't the biggest or the one that jumped the highest, but I had a real high basketball IQ and I knew it. ... I was a student of game and tried to prepare and be professional and have a good attitude. All of those things helped me have a long career.

  Avery Johnson

  Basketball, Perseverance, Attitude

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Done, Forget, Whole

  "'Hunted' creator Frank Spotnitz on his new Cinemax drama & 'The X-Files' legacy". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. October 19, 2012.

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• As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

  Max Beesley

  Actors, Mystery, Private Life

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Eliminate the clutter. That's the key. Eliminate the clutter and understand the important things. First and foremost, the most important thing is affecting the people around you in a positive way. Second thing is, be one of those guys that's going to out-study every person there is on what you need to do from a game-plan standpoint, what you need to do from a characteristic standpoint to stand apart. The last thing is, throw it to the color jersey we're wearing.

  Jim McElwain

  Keys, Color, People

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• I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Character, Play

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• 2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me and that's how I knew myself. That's where I got a lot of my self worth. That began to shift and I started to understand that I didn't get my worth from people or from the things that I did. It was from Christ. If I hadn't had that shift in my life, I think my world would have come crumbling down.

  Kelly Clark

  Self Worth, Thinking, Snowboarding

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.

  Barry Bonds

  Baseball, Relief, Able

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• If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Hymns, Joy

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8830, Delphi Classics

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• First and foremost, prayer is so helpful. But I think that you need to face your fears head on. Don't avoid them or say that you're not scared. Acknowledge it and be honest about it. It's normal to get nervous about a big game or to get nervous about an important event in your life.

  Matt Cullen

  Prayer, Thinking, Important Events

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game.

  Luke Zeller

  Prayer, Player, Names

  "A conversation with Phoenix Suns center Luke Zeller". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.

  A. J. Liebling

  Play, New Orleans, Laughing

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• I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games.

  Heather Mills

  Sports, Skeletons, Ifs

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• I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. It was just a little thing that I did because I really liked the film and I liked Benedict [Cumberbatch] and I loved Morten's [director Morten Tyldum] previous film, Headhunters. For me, it was something I did thinking, "Wow, this is a lovely quality piece of work."

  Mark Strong

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

  E. B. White

  Children, Hard Times, Giving

  "Writers at Work". Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Paris Review, 1969.

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• One of the great things about the X Games and the Olympics is being on the international stage. It gives you a cool opportunity to express, not only your personal style, but also your faith and what you believe in and your values.

  Nick Goepper

  Believe, Opportunity, Giving

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 2014.

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• Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company.

  Herbert Hoover

  Morning, White, House

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The cabinet and the presidency, 1920-1933”

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• Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

  John Steinbeck

  Singing, Despair, Church

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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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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• I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Years, Suffering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.

  Emily Post

  Children, Rights, Play

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.579, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.

  Dwight Howard

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

  "NBA All-Star Dwight Howard talks about family, faith and destiny". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Watches, News, World

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.42, Melville House

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• In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Cards, Range

  On War Chapter 1, 21 (p. 86)

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