Games Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Want, Celebrate, Rigged

  "Warren Delivers Honesty at the DNC" by David Dayen, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 6, 2012.

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• A moody child and wildly wise
  Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
  Which chose, like meteors, their way,
  And rived the dark with private ray.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Children, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.112, Graphic Arts Books

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• Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition andcooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.

  James P. Comer

  Hurt, Children, Believe

  James P. Comer (1995). “School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project”

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• I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

  Rainn Wilson

  Player, Style, Chess

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• I'm pretty competitive. I talk a big game - even when I'm going to lose.

  Kate Upton

  Bigs, Loses

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.

  Temple Grandin

  Crazy, Kids, Video

  "Temple Grandin On The Secret To Success For Kids With Autism". Interview with Macrina Cooper-White, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2014.

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• Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Writing, Gun

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.

  Brian Tee

  Kids, Saws, Fans

  "‘Mortal Kombat Legacy 2’ actor Brian Tee talks darker take on Liu Kang". Hero Complex interview, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• For young players, classic games are brand new. For older players, they bring back memories and make you feel good.

  Satoru Iwata

  Memories, Player, Feel Good

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• The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, New Beginnings, Play

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• Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Law, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.65, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Do you think it's easy to just walk up to Joe DiMaggio and start up a
  conversation? I've been around him at old-timers' games, and believe me, he's
  someone special. It's not easy to walk over and say, 'How ya doin', Joe, whaddya
  say?' You really feel as though this is the one old-timer you have to call
  Mister.

  Tom Seaver

  Believe, Thinking, Special

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• (Don) Sutton
  lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame.

  Ralph Kiner

  Winning, Lost, Thirteen

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• Nothing will ever replace the feeling I got when Jesse Orosco
  struck out Marty Barrett
  to end the game (Game 7 of the 1986 World Series) and I got the opportunity to run out into his arms. To me, that was the greatest accomplishment. Without a doubt, that was my biggest thrill.

  Gary Carter

  Running, Opportunity, Accomplishment

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• The no-hitter was the highlight of my career. The specialness of it, I didn't know how lasting it would be when it happened. Everywhere I go, people talk about that game, how exciting it was. That makes me very proud. I'm awfully happy that a ball didn't bloop in somewhere.

  Jim Abbott

  Careers, People, Would Be

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• Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.

  Tom Seaver

  Player, Years, Two

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• Everybody who plays top-level sport, whether it's golf or football, or whatever, needs to get into 'The Zone'... For me personally, on the morning of a round, preparation is always about getting into the zone. The less I communicate with other people, the better. I'm trying to rehearse in my mind what I am working on in my game: going through my swing keys, going through my putting keys. When I get to the course I get the pin positions for the day and I'll analyze those. I'll make a strategy for the golf course and look how I'm going to play it

  Paul McGinley

  Sports, Football, Morning

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• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  Beau Willimon

  Ambition, Thinking, Play

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• Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.

  Phillip Daniels

  Football, School, Player

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• You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Winning, Ladders

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• I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

  Smoky Joe Wood

  Art, World, Body

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• What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.

  Mark McGwire

  Years, Done, Way

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• When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Japan, Decision, Looks

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