Game Rule Quotes

#1. Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!

T.F. Hodge

#2. The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

Abraham Pais

#3. As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

Viktor Korchnoi

#4. His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.

Martha Wells

#5. Every game has rules. Life's a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
-chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age

Robert Jordan

#7. White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

Diane Abbott

#8. You will NEVER be just a guy, Rome. You're the best brother a guy could have. You're a fucking hero. No one, and I mean no one, has ever had my back the way you have. You are an incredible person, be it in the army fighting a war or sitting on the goddamn couch watching the game. Don't forget it.

Jay Crownover

#9. Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.

Travis Thrasher

#10. They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

Oscar Robertson

#11. Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke

Bob Probert

#12. Basketball Rule #1

In this game of life
your family is the court
and the ball is your heart.
No matter how good you are,
no matter how down you get,
always leave
your heart
on the court.

Kwame Alexander

#13. Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

Ovid

#14. There were always bullies, but the adults were still in charge. Now? Now the bullies rule. Different game, brother, a whole different game. We play by the bully rules now.

Michael Grant

#15. We have a lot of rule changes. I am part of the competition committee. We spent a lot time evaluating the game, how do we make the game better for our fans.

Ron Jaworski

#16. I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

Ja Rule

#17. Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Basketball Rule #9

When the game is on
the line,
don't fear.
Grab the ball.
Take it
to the hoop.

Kwame Alexander

#19. Basketball Rule #5
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost.

Kwame Alexander

#20. Harvard coach Bill Reid would later credit Teddy Roosevelt with saving football. But words in a rule book are one thing. Someone had to show the nation a new way to play the game. The Carlisle Indians did that.

Steve Sheinkin

#21. The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

Erle Stanley Gardner

#22. We call Chess the game of Kings, because through chess, we learn how to rule kings

Rick Yancey

#23. If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

Barbara Jordan

#24. Moist made a mental note: envelopes with a stamp already on, and a sheet of folded paper inside them: Instant Letter Kit, Just Add Ink! That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

Terry Pratchett

#25. The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

Richard Reti

#26. If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Al Davis

#27. I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

Stu Jackson

#28. The game of life has one rule: if you play, you lose.

Swami Chetanananda

#29. Life is a game I adore. I just wish someone had given me the rule book sooner.

Dane Waters

#30. There's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

Simone Elkeles

#31. The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.

Milton Friedman

#32. This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

Robert Kiyosaki

#33. There's always something going on on movie sets. Even just from, you know, maybe you come in tired some days and you're not in your best mood. It's different when you're shooting movies because you're on a schedule and you gotta come with your A-game every day.

Ja Rule

#34. This game is a hell we've all been damned into. It's designed to madden us. The most intelligent Arcana ever to play is called the Fool. The one who least wanted to kill was named Death. And you, Empress, rule over nothing!

Kresley Cole