People Who Play Games Quotes

#1. 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

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

Diane Abbott

#3. It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.

Bing Gordon

#4. Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.

Gena Showalter

#5. That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.

Tom Guiry

#6. He always wanted to play video games," said Emma. "I hate video games."
"No one is perfect, Emma."
"But some people are perfect for each other. Don't you think that has to be true?

Cassandra Clare

#7. I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.

Demetri Martin

#8. I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

Uwe Boll

#9. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's

Aldous Huxley

#10. I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

Gareth Bale

#11. Sometimes when I'm bored, I like to people watch. And I got to a touristy area and I play this game I just made up. I call it Lesbian or Midwestern?

Bonnie McFarlane

#12. People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.

Fred Wilson

#13. I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people that play this sport. I'm obsessed with the game that I play.

Jon Jones

#14. I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

Peter Hedges

#15. I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

Judith M Bardwick

#16. More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

Marvin Olasky

#17. So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it.

Yaya Han

#18. I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of George Clooney, I'll say, 'You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show ... ' Until someone says his name, I can't finish my story!

Andie MacDowell

#19. Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.

Don Cheadle

#20. There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change.

Tim Willits

#21. Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV. It's not a circus and never will be one. The audience for golf is not going to change significantly. It's always going to be people who play it, understand it, and love it.

Jack Nicklaus

#22. Why do people want to know what I think? I like to play the game. I don't like to give opinions.

Manny Ramirez

#23. 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

#24. Football is the love of my life. I would never say I don't want to play. Somebody could say that this game is meaningless. Who is it meaningless to? I guess people who are watching the game? Or the people who are playing it? It's definitely not meaningless to us.

Shawne Merriman

#25. Denial and affirmation are games which people play.
There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.

Idries Shah

#26. It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

Alistair Cooke

#27. If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.

Warren Gatland

#28. Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

Gina McCarthy

#29. I play video games a lot ... I love to read ... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

Lea Salonga

#30. There are some people in the world that don't hug you all the time or play games but they still love you. They just don't know how to say it.

Cecelia Ahern

#31. I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.

Haruki Murakami

#32. There's nothing wrong with an actor that can't improvise, but if you're going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people that can play the game.

Denis Leary

#33. What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

Oprah Winfrey

#34. Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

T. Harv Eker

#35. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

Courtney Love

#36. Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games ... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.

Dylan Moran

#37. That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

Newt Gingrich

#38. I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrating for any actor to have someone who's a celebrity take over your place. Like the 'Uncharted' film, they're trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it's like, why do they not think of us? We do this.

Nolan North

#39. Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

Gary Gygax

#40. I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

Warren Spector

#41. I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.

Louis Sachar

#42. People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.

Karen Traviss

#43. The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies

Stephen King

#44. People are still trying to figure out who I am. Most people just say I play the game the right way.

Dwyane Wade

#45. It wasn't fair to play games with the hearts of people who loved me. And they did love me
I had to admit that, or nothing would ever make sense again.

Seanan McGuire

#46. You know what I think? Very few people play because they love the game. Most of them play because they make good money. They keep playing because of the money. I could care less about it. If I don't love the game, no check is going to keep me playing.

Michael Jordan

#47. Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

Rodney Brooks

#48. I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

Nancy Gibbs

#49. You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

Dick York

#50. Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.

Jim Lee

#51. There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

Stanislaw Ulam

#52. Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

Will Wright

#53. People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!

Sophia Bush

#54. I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

Patrick Roy

#55. If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from comment, copy, criticize, cover or cheer by being anywhere.

Anuj

#56. Before games, people ask whether I get nervous. To be honest, I don't get nervous, I just enjoy it. I am living the dream. When I was a kid I always wanted to play for my country and now I am here, I will enjoy it.

Jermain Defoe

#57. I was very excited when I first started to travel so much. In fact, I was amazed that people were paying me to travel to play the game I loved.

Rory McIlroy

#58. Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

James Altucher

#59. I was only aggressive with my game play. I was not aggressive with people. My personality was just as humble as I can be out there.

Tony Vlachos

#60. I am not a fan of video games, I had to learn a lot about them. I would love to play video games, but I don't want to go around shooting people, and ripping off their heads, and it's just gross.

Anita Sarkeesian

#61. Which is why you deal with demons. (Acheron)
Who are even more pathetic than humans when you think about it. Personally, I'd rather play video games. Wouldn't it be great if we could suck the souls of the people we hated into the box, shoot them down and then dance on their entrails? (Jaden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#62. Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.

Rachel Martin

#63. Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

Joey Lauren Adams

#64. Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.

Rahki

#65. You play games with people's lives.( ... ) You forget that they are fragile.

Patricia Briggs

#66. I don't play games with people's lives like you do.

Simone Elkeles

#67. What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

Chris Avellone

#68. People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.

Manisha Koirala

#69. I could make Halo. It's not that I couldn't design that game. It's just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#70. ...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, create it - make the rules, make what they will do... That's how I do it. I make people to play my games and then often loooose!

Deyth Banger

#71. It's a luxury to play. I get to play basketball for a living. I'm a lucky guy and I'm thankful for everything I have and what I get to do. I realize how many people would give their left foot to just play one game in the NBA. This is the NBA!

Chris Bosh

#72. My favorite thing about being linked to Oakley is getting to hang with the cool people, the cool athletes - like the X-Games guys. Those guys play sports where they can really hurt themselves, and, well, I just play golf. I'm like the wimpy guy over here.

Bubba Watson