Quotes About Your Last Game

#1. 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

#2. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.

Tina Fey

#3. Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game"

Gary Myers

#4. Every game's a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way-that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one-you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you're ready to play.

Russell Wilson

#5. was like he'd lost a baseball game, his dog, and his last hundred bucks in the same day.

Annabeth Albert

#6. I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

Gerald R. Ford

#7. The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

Josephus Daniels

#8. When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so ... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

R.A. Salvatore

#9. We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as they go, but they do it with wins. We didn't get it done last week - we found a way to get it done this week.

Greg Schiano

#10. The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

Louis C.K.

#11. Don't ever give up hope until the very last moment. If you give up, the game is already over.

Takehiko Inoue

#12. This game is lame, the music comes second
So you can save that stupidness for all them artists you checkin.
Popularity don't last long, I'm in it for classics,
Cause the other side of the biz is fake and it's plastic.

Craig G

#13. Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

Bobby Robson

#14. Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

Jack Nicklaus

#15. You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.

Tom Heinsohn

#16. I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

Jim Otto

#17. You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause.

Drew Storen

#18. Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal.

Claire Cook

#19. After we played Sporting last week, the lads in the dressing room talked about him constantly, and on the plane back from the game they urged me to sign him. That's how highly they rated him.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#20. 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

#21. We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.

Barry Alvarez

#22. Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

Donald Hall

#23. I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.

Tim Henman

#24. I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great. When you've done badly, you can't wait for another chance to come.

Michael Owen

#25. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Thierry Henry

#26. Quote taken from Chapter 1:
I know what." Isabel reached under the end table, took out the game board, and rattled the Band-Aid box containing the letter tiles. "It's been a week-and-a-half since our last Scrabble game.

Ed Lynskey

#27. Just remember this, when the scream at last has ended and you've turned on the lights: by the rules of the game, I must always lie.

Margaret Atwood

#28. Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Jonny Wilkinson

#29. Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Ross Perot

#30. Perhaps the village was really a great game board, with the squares neatly marked out, and I had been moved past the square which read 'Fire; return to Start,' and was now on the last few squares, with only one move to go to reach home.

Shirley Jackson

#31. In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

Norm Sloan

#32. The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.

Greg Norman

#33. I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done better in the fourth quarter. That's the fun time to play, when everything you've worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.

Jeremy Lin

#34. All of Creation's a farce.
Man was born as a joke.
In his head his reason is buffeted
Like wind-blown smoke.
Life is a game.
Everyone ridicules everyone else.
But he who has the last laugh
Laughs longest.

William Shakespeare

#35. The last 10% of game design is really what separates the good games from the great games. It's what I call the clean-up phase of game design. Here's where you make sure all the elements look great. The game should look good, feel good, sound good, play good.

Garry Kitchen

#36. I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.

J. C. Snead

#37. I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

Webb Simpson

#38. Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

Michael Strahan

#39. It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.

Bill Vaughn

#40. So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Jermaine Dupri

#41. Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man,

David Herbert Donald

#42. I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

Mark Twain

#43. It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.

Todd Martin

#44. The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.

Frederick Lenz

#45. I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

Kylie Minogue

#46. Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

Bear Bryant

#47. The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.

Jerry Coleman

#48. Any player coming to Spurs whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must be prepared to work at his game. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing.

Bill Nichols

#49. I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone who's willing to play the game or who looks like the person in charge. And this is a problem for all women, not just women of color.

Jami Floyd

#50. When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.

Jeffrey Lurie

#51. My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.

Reinhard Selten

#52. I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan. I'm really into the 'Colbert Report' and 'Last Week Tonight.' And I really like to get on Netflix and watch, like, TV documentaries about: What happened to the mastodon? Or who was Jack the Ripper?

Scott Michael Foster

#53. Because the game of hide-and-seek was still going on, it took Edmund and Lucy some time to find the others. But when at last they were

C.S. Lewis

#54. In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

Thierry Henry

#55. This game could last for days if I keep going unconscious."
"Or it could be over very quickly."
Lev takes a deep breath and tries not to show any more fear than he has to. "Sounds exciting. I'm in.

Neal Shusterman

#56. I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game.

R.A. Dickey

#57. After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

Emilia Clarke

#58. The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#59. Do not blame anyone if at last you don't succeed because, your brain is solely responsible for this since this is where every seed of resolution will germinate.

Israelmore Ayivor

#60. I play every game like it's going to be my last.

Johnny Damon

#61. Obviously, you don't know this, Empress, but you ride with the very one who killed you in the last game! He's played you false!"
"Nope, I knew. He decapitated me. Blah.

Kresley Cole

#62. Play every game as if it's your last one

Guy Lafleur

#63. I thought we came out with too much respect at the beginning of the game and were on our heels instead of coming out attacking the way we did the last few games without Ricky and Kevin.

Dwane Casey

#64. It's my responsibility to walk around the hotel with a big smile on my face and not worry about what's happened in the last game.

David Beckham

#65. You are judged on your last game no matter how many you have banked.

Ian Eagle

#66. 'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

Randy West

#67. I met a gypsy and she hipped me to some life game,
To stimulate, then activate the left and right brain.
Said, 'Baby boy, you only funky as your last cut.
You focus on the past, your ass'll be a has-what.'
That's one to live by, or either that's one to die to.

Andre Benjamin

#68. There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.

Cam Newton

#69. God put this game last, and it's just like putting a cherry on top of your Sundae.

Jonas Jennings

#70. Play every game as if it is your last one.

Guy Lafleur

#71. When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.

Gary Bettman

#72. In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

LaMarr Woodley

#73. You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.

Walter Hagen

#74. You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament,

Pau Gasol

#75. You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

Kobe Bryant

#76. I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

Allen Iverson

#77. Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.

Brian O'Driscoll

#78. What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

Michael Jordan

#79. No nerve, hey? Not half a man! ... Buster Jack, why don't you finish game? Make up for your low-down tricks. At the last try to be worthy of your dad. In his day he was a real man ... Let him have the consolation that you faced Hell-Bent Wade an' died in your boots!

Zane Grey

#80. Forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame
And puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
You can't run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won't last

Linkin Park

#81. It wasn't any ordinary guessing game," said Rumfoord. "It was about how long the human race was going to last. I thought that might sort of give you more perspective about your own problems." "The

Kurt Vonnegut

#82. We've been playing chess with this iPhone app. He hasn't made a move in so long our last game got forfeited. Ten days, or something like that."
"You two play chess on your phones?" Ty asked.
"Yeah." Zane shrugged.

Abigail Roux

#83. Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.

Lon Kruger

#84. At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.

Shannon Miller

#85. When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is the spin of a gun cylinder, every decision pointing the barrel at your head. Over and over, again and again, you pull the trigger, hoping it won't be your last turn in the game.

J.M. Darhower

#86. Last night they hadn't even fucked. What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector?

Josh Lanyon