Five Games Quotes

#1. I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

Pee Wee Reese

#2. I don't see how he lost five games during the season.

Yogi Berra

#3. Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

Ara Parseghian

#4. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

Yogi Berra

#5. There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

Lawrence Taylor

#6. Being able to help, being able to go out there every five games, is definitely something I was waiting for.

Johan Santana

#7. Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

Bear Bryant

#8. Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

Robert Scoble

#9. The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.

Bing Gordon

#10. My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car.

Thomas Jones

#11. Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

Paul Harvey

#12. At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

Norman Cousins

#13. I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

Nolan Bushnell

#14. Carra doesn't like me to fist him before the games, so I give him a high-five instead.

Pepe Reina

#15. I'd rather miss one or two games than to come back and pop it and miss four or five.

Darren McFadden

#16. Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.

Don Meyer

#17. Before I joined professional baseball, I started umpiring in San Diego, California. I worked 155 games in a five-month season. For three years in a row, I was working tripleheaders on Saturday and doubleheaders on Sunday.

Doug Harvey

#18. While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

Warren Farrell

#19. The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen.

Jon Miller

#20. When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.

Penn Jillette

#21. Liverpool are one of the dynasties of the game. They have won five European Cups and their status is up there with AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.

Brendan

#22. Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Bobby Jones

#23. Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

Dan Rather

#24. Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

Bobby Fischer

#25. Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.

Nolan Bushnell

#26. With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes.

Jimmy Armfield

#27. It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#28. Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

Alexander Alekhine

#29. I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

Dennis Rodman

#30. It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.

David Blatt

#31. I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

John Lasseter

#32. I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

Jennifer Garner

#33. Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

Cindy Klassen

#34. I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

Pedro Pascal

#35. Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five.

Leo Beenhakker

#36. When things are not going right, where are the leaders to pull this team together? That leadership sometimes, you just can't find it. If one of your leaders is the guy who throws five interceptions [in one game], you have an issue.

Marshall Faulk

#37. Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.

Adam Dunn

#38. I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

John Madden

#39. Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

David Bronstein

#40. I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

David R. Ellis

#41. If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

Paul Banks

#42. Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

George Will

#43. It was a crazy game. We could have scored five ... oh right, we did score five, but we could have scored six, seven or eight.

Robin Van Persie

#44. I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

Ayn Rand

#45. I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

Dizzy Dean

#46. This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

Abhinav Bindra

#47. I tell em everybody else is my opposite. I put em on the game give em five percent.

Nicki Minaj

#48. Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games
if you count exhibitions
and I'm overpaid!

Johnny Bench

#49. To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

Tom Hodgkinson

#50. I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.

Cool Papa Bell

#51. [On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

Nina Jacobson

#52. Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

Dave Barry

#53. There's no question in my mind: not only am I going to be able to make it through 16 games, I'll make it through another five years,

Tony Romo

#54. Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Brian Tracy