Game With Quotes

#1. Then I'd be dead," I pointed out. "Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to play
that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

Robin Hobb

#2. I don't. But if I had your love, I wouldn't waste it like he does. He's playing a game with you. He'll regret pushing you away, though, when he realizes I'm here, waiting to catch you.

Jessica Hawkins

#3. We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'

Monte Irvin

#4. Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

Bobby Orr

#5. We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels.

Jay Woodman

#6. Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.

Austin Grossman

#7. Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

Charles Krauthammer

#8. Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.

Stuart Dybek

#9. Unlike Francis Crawford, whose game with life was a strange and rootless affair played with the intellect, Jerott had a passionate instinct to live. It was a happy circumstance also that his nervous and bronchial systems were roughly as frail as a bison's.

Dorothy Dunnett

#10. I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

Steve Carell

#11. The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

Viktor Korchnoi

#12. (Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

John Irving

#13. Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.

Edmar Mednis

#14. So how do you unify a secure, wealthy country that has sunk into a zero-sum political game with itself?

Sebastian Junger

#15. Chutes and Ladders was perhaps the most sadistic board game ever invented. Adults loathed the game; children loved it. The universe thus dictated that an adult invariably got snookered into playing the game with a child.

David Foster Wallace

#16. Nobody in the game uses their feet, but it's football. I love how Americans can just claim something to be whatever they feel it is, despite clear evidence it's not. Like a football game with nobody using any feet that takes forever.

Marlon James

#17. A moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

John Elway

#19. Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

Dejan Stojanovic

#20. Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

Conor McGregor

#21. I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.

Alan Page

#22. I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

Richard Sherman

#23. We are living in a post-fictional era. Fictional governments are accepted without comment, and we can sit in a mosque and have a debate about the fictional port a fictional character consumes in a video game, with every gravity we would accord something quite real.

G. Willow Wilson

#24. I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome.

Kellan Lutz

#25. If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.

Timothy F. Cahill

#26. If every word or device that achieved currency were immediately authenticated, simply on the grounds of popularity, the language would be as chaotic as a ball game with no foul lines

William Strunk Jr.

#27. You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

Christopher Meloni

#28. I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Alton Brown

#29. The universe is really playing hard game with me.

Nina Ardianti

#30. Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Henry A. Kissinger

#31. Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

Nicklas Lidstrom

#32. I actually do quite well in Omaha. It's one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold 'em.

Chris Moneymaker

#33. Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.

Paul Meyer

#34. Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility.

T.F. Hodge

#35. Basketball is a game with winners and losers, but if you play this game with your heart, you're always a winner.

C.M.

#36. The fearful happenings of the second game need not be lingered over, being now as well known as the circumstances surrounding the fall of Troy. Until the gods began their heavy-handed meddling, it was a fine, fast game, with the Dodgers having somewhat the better of it.

Roger Angell

#37. A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution.

Richard Arnold Epstein

#38. Play the game with a smile.

Earl Monroe

#39. You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.

Tony Romo

#40. You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch ... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

Freddy Adu

#41. Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.

Will Wright

#42. Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in the country who are hurting.

Bernie Sanders

#43. Hunt game? With pearl-handled revolvers?" I asked, incredulous. "Isn't that a bit ... I dunno ... fancy? Do I just run out into the forest with my pearl-handled revolvers, or do I invite some deer to a cocktail party and then gun them down?

Jeff VanderMeer

#44. The lad is surprisingly strong and can turn a game with his incredible acceleration before applying a world-class finish. You can't kick Messi out of a game- he rides tackles like a thoroughbred horse.

Osvaldo Ardiles

#45. I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.

Maria Menounos

#46. Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.

Richard Corliss

#47. I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That I'm athletic, that I'm fast, and I'm relentless.

Jon Beason

#48. Don't play that game with me, Acheron. Tell me what I need to know! (Xypher)
Nice tone. We should rent you out to record Halloween albums. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. Yes, my style sucks. But at least I didn't bowl half a game with a nacho stuck to my ass.

Sara Wolf

#50. Scouting is a Game with a Purpose

William Hillcourt

#51. I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?

Jim Edmonds

#52. With the physical mindset I play the game with, I expect to get hurt.

Steve McNair

#53. War has often been called a game, with good reason. Both have combatants. Both have sides. Both carry the risk of losing.

Samantha Shannon

#54. You broke a man today. Doesn't that affect you at all? These are lives, not pieces in a chess game with your uncle.'
'You're wrong. We are on my uncle's board and these men are all his pieces.'
'Then each time you move one of them, you can congratulate yourself on how much like him you are.

C.S. Pacat

#55. Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

Phil Jackson

#56. I'd really love to work with virtual reality at some point. You could make a killer adventure game with that.

Jane Jensen

#57. On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began.

Jane Leavy

#58. One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.

Jill Lepore

#59. The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Terence

#60. So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level out of 350.

Deyth Banger

#61. By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"

Sasa Stanisic

#62. Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.

Helen Fisher

#63. When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, 'Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin'-somethin'.' I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on 'SportsCenter.' Just add statistics.

Stuart Scott

#64. Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

Yann Martel

#65. The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.

Iyanla Vanzant

#66. We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

#67. If he wanted to play a game with my character, then I was prepared to answer in turn.

Kiera Cass

#68. SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.

Sara Shepard

#69. Hey, this was rugby, not that daft game with the round ball.

J.L. Merrow

#70. I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

Jim Evans

#71. 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

#72. The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

Douglas Feith

#73. Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

Evel Knievel

#74. In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with.

T.F. Hodge

#75. You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness

Brad Stevens

#76. Life was a damned muddle ... a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of - every one claiming the referee would have been on his side ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#77. Lifers who had been around long enough to understand the game with some perspective

Dan Brown

#78. Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

Edward Abbey

#79. As I'd listened in on the conversation, I'd noted what seemed to be disappointment in Loving's voice. I wondered if that was due to his reluctance to cease playing this game with me personally. But that was perhaps projecting my feelings onto him. I

Jeffery Deaver

#80. I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

Candace Parker

#81. It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain

Buddy Bell

#82. Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#83. I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

Eric Davis

#84. If you have a game with your name on it, you have to learn how to play.

Tony Hawk

#85. Many have forgotten who our true enemy is. Satan is not playing a game with us. He is playing for keeps. He is out to destroy us.

Ruben Barreto

#86. With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.

Valerie Cruz

#87. Why don't boys like girls as they are?' 'They bore easy cause the so deadhead. Sometimes they want you mami, sometimes sis, sometimes lovergirl. You game with boys you got to know who you are and not let them tell you'.

Jack Womack

#88. I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.

Tony Oliva

#89. Some women feel loved if you do the dishes without being reminded; some men feel loved if you'll play a video game with them, others if you buy them a collar and a nice leash and occasionally lead them around by it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#90. After Connie and I broke up, I played a little game with myself out on the streets of Manhattan. It was called Things Could Be Worse. Things could be worse, I said to myself, I could be that guy.

Joshua Ferris

#91. We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.

Joe Torre

#92. Can God play a significant game with his own creature? Can any creator, even a limited one, play a significant game with his own creature?

Dan Simmons

#93. No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

Kip Pardue

#94. We can't afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that's a risk we can't take.

Barack Obama

#95. If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.

Scott Adams

#96. A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it's real hard for 'em.

Nipsey Hussle

#97. For recreation, Lincoln took up bowling with his fellow boarders. Though a clumsy bowler, according to Dr. Busey, Lincoln "played the game with great zest and spirit" and "accepted success and defeat with like good nature and humor.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#98. Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.

Bill Gates

#99. There is no stress, anxiety or fear; it's our mind's game with our heart to dare.
Change your perception and don't let your mind wander.

Debasish Mridha

#100. We go out and work hard. We play this game with emotion and love. Coach always says 'Emotionally, physically, mentally - come to the field prepared.' Because if you don't bring that to the field, you're going to get beat.

Laura Berg