Games Quotes - Page 5

• Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Hell, Monopoly

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• Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Precision

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• Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Criticism, Hierarchy, Rhyming

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

  Alice Duer Miller

  Baseball, Men, Emotional

  Alice Duer Miller (2016). “Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

  Richard Sherman

  Nfl, Appreciate, Trying

  "Richard Sherman rips 49ers' Michael Crabtree" by Eric Branch, www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2014.

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• If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.

  Magic Johnson

  Reality, Hands, Justice

  "Magic Johnson says Donald Sterling should sell Clippers" by Matt Moore, www.cbssports.com. April 27, 2014.

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• Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart

  Harvey Penick

  Children, Heart, Practice

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• I think pro-athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create! Lets go! Anything that will make you run faster, jump higher! I have High-Definition TV! I want my athletes like my video games! Lets go! I could care less if you die at 40. You hate life after sports anyways. I'm doing you a favor.

  Daniel Tosh

  Sports, Letting Go, Running

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• I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.

  Terry Crews

  Running, Football, Fun

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Art, Swans, Hunters

  1935 Solstice,'Love the Wild Swan'.

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• There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.

  Tom Waits

  Kind, Spirals, Practicals

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• Does anyone believe for one moment that the progress we have made would have been possible under bureaucratic control of any government. This country was founded upon the principle of the regulation of private effort, of making rules for the game, and under that system alone can we look for the same success in the future which has been ours in the past. Our position today is the direct result of the free play among our people of private competitive effort.

  Roger Babson

  Country, Believe, Past

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• The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Police, Revolution

  The Secret Agent ch. 4 (1907)

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• Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Remember You, Remembers You

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• The kids know what I'm doing when I exercise, and that's powerful. So don't just tell your kids to go play outside. Take a moment off your computer, put on your tennis shoes, hop outside and help them start their game and run off some energy.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Powerful, Kids

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• bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics.
  Or form a Piss Club where we all go
  in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.

  Anne Sexton

  Sex, Childhood, Catholic

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Fighting, Sweat, Wake Up

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

  Kathy Whitworth

  Golf, Missing, Winner

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• Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.

  Bo Ryan

  Taken, Two, Balls

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• When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Essence, Names

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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• God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Fear, War, Marine

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• Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Grateful, Dirty, Men

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• Half the game is 90% mental.

  Yogi Berra

  Half

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• I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.

  Monica Seles

  Nice, Happy Life, Play

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• I'm sure there have been guys who didn't realize they had a concussion and just kept playing. It's a violent game. The head injuries are the most dangerous to play with. We're trained to play no matter what. If you can run, and you're able to focus and know your responsibilities, you're usually out there playing. You wouldn't have enough players if no one played hurt. Especially if you're, like, on special teams, you're going to do everything you can to stay in the game.

  Mike Brown

  Running, Hurt, Team

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