Game Time Quotes

#1. There's a reason diehard fans get to the ballpark hours before game time. It's not for better parking. It's not for extra time to find our seats. It's not so we'll have time to down an extra hot dog, heavy on the mustard, prior to the first pitch. It's called BP.

Tucker Elliot

#2. Looks like it's game time," Shame said. "Beautiful day for some ass kicking, don't you think?

Devon Monk

#3. When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#4. I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.

Cam Newton

#5. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules.

Iain M. Banks

#6. Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

Wayne Brady

#7. I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

Donald Driver

#8. 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

#9. It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

Khloe Kardashian

#10. Rumor had it that during the last home stand, someone had called the stadium ticket office asking what time the game started and was told, "What time can you be here?

Mike Shropshire

#11. Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?" He lifted my bandaged hand. Underneath all the game, my knuckles throbbed from punching Jules. Patch kissed each finger, taking his time, keeping his eyes glued to mine.
"What good is a body if I can't have you?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#12. Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?

Scott McNealy

#13. It still is on the run,
time that is.
Sometimes it seems like everything's changing;
my whole world is rearranging.
Everything's different,
and yet everything's the same.
Time is just a crazy game.

Amanda Leigh

#14. I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

Kevin Spacey

#15. I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'

Miley Cyrus

#16. You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.

Duke Snider

#17. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

Napoleon Hill

#18. Failing one time - or even several times - doesn't make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.

Frank Sonnenberg

#19. It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#20. There's a drinking game in Heaven, where angels do a shot every time humans invest "for the long term.

Johnny B. Truant

#21. Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over ... Death is not anything ... death is not ... It's the absence of presence, nothing more ... the endless time of never coming back ... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound ...

Tom Stoppard

#22. The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.

Howard Staunton

#23. The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I'd rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.

Deborah Harkness

#24. The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.

John Elway

#25. The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.

Herb Caen

#26. I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.

Julius Erving

#27. [The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.

Vince Kehres

#28. We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

Eugene Kennedy

#29. Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.

Deyth Banger

#30. Not always. Sometimes it's ass, Vince said, cleverly bringing ass back into the conversation one more time. I began to wonder if there was a hidden camera, with a smirking game-show host handing out a prize every time we used the word.

Jeff Lindsay

#31. Do you ever wish you knew the answers on jeopardy ahead of time so you could win a million dollars too? A coach gives you that kind of edge. And instead of a TV game show you'll be winning at life.

Michael McGovern

#32. I think we've been through a lot this season and it will be nice to move on. It's one step at a time though. The focus of our hockey club was great. We really stuck to our game plan and didn't get too high or too low and we definitely didn't get over excited.

Martin Brodeur

#33. The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

Andy Rooney

#34. Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time

William Shakespeare

#35. For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.

William Goldman

#36. 'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.

Hoda Kotb

#37. I had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time.

Joe Paterno

#38. I found you a thousand times; I guess you done the same; But then we lose each other; It's like a children's game; As I find you here again; A thought runs through my mind; Our love is like a circle; Let's go 'round one more time.

Harry Chapin

#39. This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called 'Gurgeh'. The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game. Me? I'll tell you about me later. This is how the story begins.

Anonymous

#40. Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.

Rafael Soriano

#41. If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

Mariano Rivera

#42. It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

Viswanathan Anand

#43. What's the point of massive achievement if your life has no balance? And what's the point of winning the game if you never take the time to celebrate and appreciate the life you have? There's nothing worse than a rich person who's chronically angry or unhappy.

Anthony Robbins

#44. I'm still playing the game, having a great time.

Jason Giambi

#45. I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

Rebecca Lobo

#46. And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game.

Joni Mitchell

#47. I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

Chris Bosh

#48. There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success.

JohnA Passaro

#49. Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

E.B. White

#50. What could be a better use of your time than establishing a game plan for your life?

Michael Hyatt

#51. Marcie: I know you're still wounded. Danny, you have to let it go. That is what this mind game is all about, discovering who we are.
Humans lie to themselves all the time. There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.

Andrew Neff

#52. Yeah, it's so popular it's almost legal. The customers are torn between needing someone and wanting to be alone at the same time, which has probably always been the name of that particular game, even before we had the neuroelectronics to enable them to have it both ways.

William Gibson

#53. I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

Michael Strahan

#54. I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

Jack Nicklaus

#55. In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Anita Brookner

#56. I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

Roland Barthes

#57. Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Dave Winfield

#58. Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

Mark Calcavecchia

#59. I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.

Stephen Merchant

#60. Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks to the ticket to the Champions League - that they have resources that only a handful of other sides, through merit or the exploitation of the people of Russia, can approach.

Phil Cornwell

#61. In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

Vince Lombardi

#62. When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.

Maya Angelou

#63. A man accepts the thankless burden of responsibility. We women do not. To us, life is a game we play one day at a time.

Clive Cussler

#64. I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method we use to move through three- or four- dimensional space is a game. It doesn't matter how serious we take it, or how serious its consequences are.

Douglas Rushkoff

#65. If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

Mickey Mantle

#66. Garbage time is that time at the end of the game when the points don't really matter, and nothing you do can really affect the overall outcome, but the rookies usually get a chance to play on the big stage.

Katie Nolan

#67. It's not whether you win or lose in life that's important but whether you play the game. Lose enough and eventually you will win. It's only a matter of time.

Joseph Sugarman

#68. My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!

Nolan North

#69. If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

Herman Leonard

#70. I'm a Lakers fan. Kevin Garnett is my favorite player of all time because of his passion for the game.

Rahim Moore

#71. Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am,
my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court

Jeremy Lin

#72. I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

Max Scherzer

#73. It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.

Mike Piazza

#74. I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.

Jack Johnson

#75. It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Lee Westwood

#76. Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000 scouts got up in the stands and screamed in cadence, 'Yea, yea, Big Al. Yea, yea, Big Al.'

Saul Alinsky

#77. Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute.

Vincent Kompany

#78. A bad life doesn't justify bad behavior. It's time to stop playing the blame game and take responsibility for your own actions. You have control of your life from here.

Blaque Diamond

#79. You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees [a cutscene]. I felt if players saw the cutscenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I've decided against having them.

Masahiro Sakurai

#80. The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

Tiger Woods

#81. The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.

Todd Helton

#82. Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Bob Feller

#83. I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills in a sedentary situation under the pressure of limited time.

Chuck Palahniuk

#84. I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.

Gail Carson Levine

#85. My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

Bruce Lansky

#86. Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.

Wil Wheaton

#87. Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele ... Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar.

Gary Lineker

#88. I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.

Les Miles

#89. Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic ... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.

Bill Parcells

#90. By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

Grenville Kleiser

#91. Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).

Prashant Chopra

#92. I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#93. I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.

David Cone

#94. Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

Harvey MacKay

#95. As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.

Emraan Hashmi

#96. I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time ... any racing game.

Afrojack

#97. Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?

Rachel Spangler

#98. its time for the which one is Hikaru-kun game!

Bisco Hatori

#99. For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.

Bent Larsen

#100. He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

Sharon Sant