Con Game Quotes

#1. Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.

Terence McKenna

#2. I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion ... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

Mira Nair

#3. The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

Thomas Sowell

#4. This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

Adam Osborne

#5. Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

Joe McGinniss

#6. I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the gods run in their heavenly side-show. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don't need it. I have my moment which is quite enough.

Robert Sheckley

#7. Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

Ronald Ross

#8. I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#9. Whether we're stuffing our faces with Kogi tacos or playing a pickup game of football outside the stages, there's never a shortage of fun behind the scenes on 'Murder In The First.'

Ian Anthony Dale

#10. It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.

Joe Montana

#11. I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Kobe Bryant

#12. There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.

Jorge Posada

#13. And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

Joan Collins

#14. That witch talks a big game, but she couldn't be a bigger candy-ass if she dropped her pink little undies and sat on a pile of gumdrops.

Danielle Paige

#15. I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it.

Clinton Portis

#16. What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play ... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.

Charles Barkley

#17. I think I can change the game.

Venus Williams

#18. Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

David Ortiz

#19. You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

Holly Black

#20. If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.

Keyshawn Johnson

#21. it did not so much judge the quality of a trader's performance as encourage him to game the system by working for short-term profits at the expense of possible blowups - like

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#22. Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'

Dennis Hull

#23. The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

Michael Jordan

#24. But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.

David Levithan

#25. If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

Casey Stengel

#26. D-Bo had a great game, so now a lot of teams, they're not sure what to do. They can't just key on me. They've got to key on both of us. D-Bo had a coming-out party.

Calvin Johnson

#27. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.

Jenna Miscavige Hill

#28. Given the fact that he'd had only the barest of plans upon arriving in Arendelle, the end result was something of a miracle. True, he'd had to lie, manipulate, and con his way to this point, but that was just part of the game. And it turned out he played the game very, very well.

Walt Disney Company

#29. In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it. Elections

Matt Taibbi

#30. Con" is short for "confidence game" or "confidence trick." The term comes from the idea that you gain someone's confidence in order to take advantage of them.

Jason Mosberg

#31. It's just a two-man con," said Shadow. "Like the bishop and the diamond necklace and the cop. Like the guy with the fiddle, and the guy who wants to buy the fiddle, and the poor sap in between them who pays for the fiddle. Two men, who appear to be on opposite sides, playing the same game.

Neil Gaiman

#32. You mean on YouTube?" "No, I mean I was watching the game when you got laid out. Hardest hit I've ever seen. I don't know how you survived it, Amos, I really don't." "Why'd

David Baldacci

#33. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.

Charlie Sheen

#34. It's a game changer, not a game ender.

Joe Teti

#35. The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes versatility, intelligence, and ability to think quickly and calmly, to adapt to every situation.

Ray Rice

#36. My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

Carl Crawford

#37. Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

Paul Scholes

#38. You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

LeBron James

#39. I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.

Morgan Ensberg

#40. Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.

Ernie Els

#41. All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Duffy Daugherty

#42. A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#43. I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

#44. I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?

ASAP Rocky

#45. Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

Richard Madden

#46. The biggest weakness with my game is that I have fun with the galleries. I just love a gallery.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#47. I have DM'd games where the players smoked pot, where they have cooked fondue, where they've performed yoga and where they've slipped out for ten minutes (without my knowing) to have quick sex in the bathroom during a game break.

Alexis D. Smolensk

#48. A game is not won until it is lost.

David Pleat

#49. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

Bobby Fischer

#50. The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Chuck Palahniuk

#51. There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Elliot Richardson

#52. Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

John Rhys-Davies

#53. When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He sees not what you lost or won, but how you played the game!

A.A. Khan

#54. For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.

Michel Ocelot

#55. But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

Orson Scott Card

#56. I think I've been waiting for the big gesture, the one where the guy stands in the rain and declares his love or makes some scene at a football game that ends with the crowd doing the slow clap. It's official. Romantic comedies have ruined me.

Lex Martin