Games Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.

  Robert Benchley

  Running, Mistake, Player

  Robert Benchley (1925). “Of All Things”

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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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• Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Precision

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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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• 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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• In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.

  Frank Pittman

  Memories, Boys, Simple

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• The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished.  It's over.  It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

  Sparky Anderson

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

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• The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.

  Stefan Zweig

  Believe, Animal, Hands

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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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• 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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• Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

  Karl Kraus

  Chess, Diplomacy, Nations

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• I spent the nights before the Jets' two biggest games last year - for the AFL championship and the Super Bowl - with girls. But I don't consider that bad or foolish of me... The night before a game, I prepare myself both mentally and physically for the next day. I think a ballplayer has to be relaxed to play well; and if that involves being with a girl that night, he should do it.

  Joe Namath

  Girl, Night, Thinking

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Lawrence Linderman, thestacks.deadspin.com. 1969.

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• The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Uncles, Team

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• I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super Bowl champions.... I immediately thought of all the great players on the team. I was in awe, as I had watched these soon-to-be legends play on television. They epitomized for me what football was all about: the love of the game, the professional approach, and the desire to win.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Team, Winning

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• One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.

  Martin Gardner

  Teacher, Science, Class

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• Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

  John A. Macdonald

  Political, Politics, Politician

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• There are different 'It' factors for different players. There are all kinds of different personalities of quarterbacks around the league, but there are a lot of good ones and they don't necessarily think and act alike. But I do think there are moments during games even on the collegiate level where you can see that this guys is something different, someone sees things differently, they see things a little bit quicker, they're a little bit more cognizant of what's going on. I think it's something like that.

  Ted Thompson

  Player, Thinking, Nfl

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• Doorbells are like a magic game,
  Or the grab-bag at a fair --
  You never know when you hear one ring
  Who may be waiting there.

  Rachel Field

  Waiting, Magic, Bags

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• Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

  Roy Acuff

  Play, Loses

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• I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

  Garry Wills

  Football, Prayer, Real

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• When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success.

  Lil Wayne

  Flirty, Flirting, Hustle

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.

  Brady Quinn

  Jobs, Thinking, Play

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• I am not a fan of video games, I had to learn a lot about them. I would love to play video games, but I don't want to go around shooting people, and ripping off their heads, and it's just gross.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Play, People, Fans

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