Play Their Game Quotes

#1. The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

George R R Martin

#2. For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

Veronica Webb

#3. They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game

R.D. Laing

#4. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are." Dany

George R R Martin

#5. Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

Ben Stiller

#6. Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

Johnny Depp

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

Diane Abbott

#8. It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

George R R Martin

#9. The guys who played with your feelings were jerks, Jane. You deserve better than guys like them. At least you did deserve better until you decided to play their game.

Meredith Schorr

#10. Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. They'd wanted camaraderie, friendship, but he had never agreed to play their game, only his own.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just lost. He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.

Ally Condie

#12. Every kid's dream is to play for their hometown team, watching when you're younger and stuff like that. It's awesome to be able to be from Miami and play for the Marlins because I was at the stadium as a little kid watching the game.

Gaby Sanchez

#13. Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money ... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels ... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

Ray Liotta

#14. The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

Lord Byron

#15. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

Ben Kingsley

#16. I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.

Sanaa Lathan

#17. I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth.
Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth.
It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play.
Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.

Lauryn Hill

#18. Life's a game and men the gamblers. They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and - they won't play.

Jack London

#19. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

William Cowper

#20. I'm not really sick of people whipping their hair. It doesn't really get old. They're fans and I love them! It's just a fun game to play.

Willow Smith

#21. My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles?

Emo Philips

#22. You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand.

David Beckham

#23. Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do

Tony Greig

#24. The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon.

Bob Toski

#25. For some people themselves and their family is only human But Other all are Toy For play and Broke After game
But The truth they do not know that they just Own Human Body Nothing More

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#26. What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.

Peter Capaldi

#27. I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.

Anna Quindlen

#28. People could play blindness and deafness game when it comes to your work and achievements. But your work will alway be a mega picture in their midst and your words will always be your voice that will never depart from their ears.

Euginia Herlihy

#29. Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes.
One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

Gary Gygax

#30. Everybody else seemed to know how to play this game. It was like they had their games all chosen for them. Those fucks seemed to have some cheat sheet built right into their brains that had all the rules and tips and clues to these games spelled out on them.

Andersen Prunty

#31. I believe passionately in love, I even believe in 'the one' to a certain exert, but I am willing to play the waiting game and patiently await their arrival rather than dive into relationships I know not to be right in the mean time.

Jon Richardson

#32. Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees their end off!

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.

Gaston Leroux

#34. At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#35. 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

#36. It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Beau Willimon

#37. The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics.

Helenio Herrera

#38. 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

#39. When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.

Ric Ocasek

#40. War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

William Cowper

#41. Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.

Alexander Lowen

#42. We may be young, but we're not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game.

Orson Scott Card

#43. Some version of 'Deal or No Deal' airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it's the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.

Howie Mandel

#44. The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Robert Baden-Powell

#45. Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

LeBron James

#46. You've probably met moms like that. You say, "Yeah, I scored a goal in the soccer game last night." And she says, "Oh, that's nice. All fourteen of my children are the captains of their teams, and they make straight A's and can play the violin." And you just want to smack her.

Rick Riordan

#47. Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile ... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.

Albert Pujols

#48. I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

Chris Bosh

#49. I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.

Leon Wagner

#50. For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn't let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours ... this marvelous, blessed game ... and we just went out and played it.

Monte Irvin

#51. 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

#52. To me, what Minecraft represents is more than a hit game franchise. It's this open-world platform. If you think about it, it's the one game parents want their kids to play.

Satya Nadella

#53. 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

#54. Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

Simon Sinek

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

James Altucher

#56. I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it.

Carlos Beltran

#57. You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

James Mangold

#58. 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

#59. I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

Harry Connick Jr.

#60. Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

Sheri S. Tepper

#61. The idea that everyone in their lives has played a video game is becoming more acceptable to the general audience. Now we just need to work on the idea that, even out of adolescence, that it's okay to still play.

Rob Manuel