Top 100 Game Quotes
#1. Just look at Andy Roddick. He has the biggest serve on the men's tour and he's not the No. 1 because other parts of his game are not so good. I think it's more important to have the desire and the other parts of your game.
Elena Dementieva
#2. Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#3. Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes.
Rickson Gracie
#5. I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.
Josh Hartnett
#6. The Buke of Ye Chess used the game as the basis for a series of sermons on morality. Neither book illustrates play or player improvement, but uses the chessboard and pieces to 'allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the common good'2.
Laura Caine Ramsey
#7. I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.
Condoleezza Rice
#8. The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.
Richard Reti
#9. If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.
Joe Paterno
#10. How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
Jackie Robinson
#11. I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.
Margaret Stohl
#12. The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game
Albert Einstein
#13. True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over.
Kate McGahan
#14. Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.
Tony DiCicco
#15. When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
Ice-T
#16. Alright ... what do you want me to say? Do you want me to say it's funny, so you can contradict me and say it's sad? Or do you want me to say it's sad so you can turn around and say no, it's funny. You can play that damn little game any way you want to, you know!
Edward Albee
#17. Sometimes, all company forsaking,
They settle to a game of chess
And, leaning on a table, guess
What move the other may be making,
And Lensky with a dreamy look,
Allows his pawn to take his rook.
Alexander Pushkin
#18. Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. What is the first question we ask about a newborn baby?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#19. I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.
David Stern
#20. I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
Shia Labeouf
#21. Where are you taking us?" Nico said.
"You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportunity to join a great army! Just like that silly game you play with cards and dolls."
"They're not dolls! They're figurines! And you can take your great army and -
Rick Riordan
#22. My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.
Joshua Ferris
#23. One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
Bobby Flay
#24. Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.
Ben Feldman
#25. These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.
Gene Wolfe
#26. I do not pray ... I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men ... Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
Zora Neale Hurston
#27. Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.
Avijeet Das
#28. A faithless fan can make a team lose a game they have won.
Paulo Coelho
#29. The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.
Eugene Jarvis
#30. We need to do for clean energy what Kennedy did for space in the original Apollo Project: Set a bold vision that will light the fires of innovation and make a game-changing shift in how we use and produce energy. And nothing less is adequate.
Jay Inslee
#31. I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.
Jerry Rice
#32. Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.
Amy Lowell
#33. Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.
Dustin Diamond
#34. It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.
Eduardo Perez
#35. He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.
Mike Ditka
#36. Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.
James Cash Penney
#37. I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
Tom Tolbert
#38. Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times.
Tom Benson
#39. The model was right, it worked well, but the game turned out to be a different one than anticipated.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#40. Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
Greg Kinnear
#41. In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.
Stefan Zweig
#42. Mendeleyev was said to have modelled the table on the card game solitaire.
Bill Bryson
#43. Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists.
Shane Smith
#44. Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
G.H. Hardy
#45. It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.
Gelett Burgess
#46. I know it's just a game. But so is life. And how we play the game has something to do with how we live our life.
Nick Cole
#47. The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.
Charles R. Morris
#49. 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
#50. Why do people want to know what I think? I like to play the game. I don't like to give opinions.
Manny Ramirez
#51. I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
Steven Wright
#52. It is impossible for any single medium to fully capture the emotion and intensity of war. The Battlefield 3: The Russian novel is one window into the experience, and the game is another. They complement each other perfectly,
Andy McNab
#53. READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.
Judith Viorst
#54. I didn't make the rules, but fuck if I don't play the hell out of the game.
A.D. Aliwat
#55. Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.
Wanda Landowska
#56. Games, All Games are meant to be Fun and when it stops being Fun it stops being a Game.
Brian L. Swartz
#57. Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.
Michael Covel
#58. 'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created 'Bunk.'
Kurt Braunohler
#59. Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.
Sam Mendes
#62. I don't have to fight or run," [Locke] cackled. "I changed the rules of the game. I just have to keep you here ... asshole.
Here ... until ... Jean gets back.
Scott Lynch
#63. [Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
Vince Lombardi
#64. Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.
Bernard Haisch
#65. She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities
this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny.
Laurie Colwin
#66. Life is a game, a dream, a fantasy, that is never fully realized until it is over.
Peace and War go hand in hand in our world today.
Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Akira
#67. Fedor has no weakness. I have seen so many fights, and even the best fighters in the world have a flaw in their game but I have yet to find one in Fedor Emelianenko.
Bas Rutten
#68. I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.
Michelle Forbes
#69. After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.
Drew Carey
#71. Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do
Tony Greig
#72. A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
Peter Ueberroth
#73. As a quarterback, you try to manage the game. It's not just throwing the ball. You have to manage the running game and getting out of bad situations and there are a lot of things to it. That's what I'm trying to do.
Eli Manning
#74. I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
Hannah Murray
#75. There is a part of me that really just thinks it would be so funny to see the 'Veep' characters in 'Game of Thrones.'
Timothy Simons
#76. It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.
Marcus Allen
#77. There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
Keith Allen
#78. The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
Garry Kasparov
#79. Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one.
Michael Owen
#80. Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
Vanilla Ice
#81. And if Bitsy was so all-fired set on everything being perfect, she wouldn't have scheduled the damn thing on a football Saturday. Nobody's going to miss the Alabama game for a wedding, for God's sake. We'll be lucky if the priest shows up." ~Aunt Muddy
Lexi George
#82. Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
Jason Mraz
#83. Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
Charlie Daniels
#84. Kamaswami conducted his business with care and often with passion, but Siddhartha looked upon all of this as if it was a game, the rules of which he tried hard to learn precisely, but the contents of which did not touch his heart.
Hermann Hesse
#85. It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.
David Blatt
#86. In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.
Jodi Picoult
#87. I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#88. If I make a mistake here and there, I'm going to come back and try and play aggressive. This is my game.
Rafael Soriano
#89. I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.
David Gerrold
#90. Aiden already knew he should say his last prayers now. Lex was going to kill him. Slowly.
***
She was going to kill him. Slowly.
Lex sat on the sidelines watching the last game of the night. She hated sitting out, but she had to take her turn.
Camy Tang
#91. Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.
Jose Mourinho
#92. He felt himself go cold as he suddenly realized what a dangerous game he was playing. So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.
Patrick Rothfuss
#93. They don't want you to wear the Saint Lauren fur, they don't want you to break App Store, they don't want you to be the biggest boss in the game. So what we go'n do is we go'n win more.
DJ Khaled
#94. When I was a wee lad, Uncle Dickie sat me on his knee, and regaled me with stories about the genesis of a game that involved trying to jam a ball into a hole in the ground with a stick,
David Feherty
#95. There is no second baseman in the game who can turn the double play better [than Mark Lemke]. Why are people always looking for offense at that position? What's more important is getting outs, and turning the double is a huge factor in getting outs.
Tom Glavine
#96. Oh, we talk of progress, but what we really desire is the perpetuation of the present. With its seemingly endless excesses, its ravenous appetites. Ever the same rules, ever the same game.
Steven Erikson
#97. 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
#98. Look at life as an energy economy game. Each day, ask yourself, Are my energy expenditures (actions, reactions, thoughts, and feelings) productive or nonproductive? During the course of my day, have I accumulated more stress or more peace?
Howard Martin
#99. Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
#100. For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.
Vinnie Jones
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