Talk A Good Game Quotes

#1. We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game ... we've got to play a good game.

Price Pritchett

#2. If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.

John Thune

#3. Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there.

Bernie Sanders

#4. I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.

Stephen Colbert

#5. Churches won't work with you, though, just out of the goodness of their hearts. They'll talk a good game-a sermon on Sunday, maybe, or a special offering for the homeless. But if push comes to show, they won't really move unless you can show them how it'll help them pay their heating bill.

Barack Obama

#6. Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

Tom DeMarco

#7. Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

David Hackworth

#8. I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

Josh Hartnett

#9. We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

Chris Bohjalian

#10. We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

Peter Bondra

#11. Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Jane Austen

#12. I suppressed another shiver - I did not want Zachary taking off any more clothes on my account.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#13. Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.

Alister MacKenzie

#14. What are you thinking?"
"Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see."
"Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Am I four years old? All I do is cry and say things are stupid.
I'm stupid.

Hannah Moskowitz

#16. She knew she could kill him in a variety of gory ways in less time than it took him to adjust the strange spectoculums that rested on the very end of his nose, but even this distraction didn't seem to help!

Stuart Hill

#17. The light of truth will cover the world, and eliminate the darkness that, for at the moment, blinds so many from the way. The faith of the faithful will prevail, and those faithful will be united with the Lord Jesus forever.

Calvin W. Allison

#18. Everything that is given to us in life is either a blessing or a curse.

Seth Adam Smith

#19. Anybody who likes to play poker, if you want to find a good poker game, you're going to go play. It's not anything where I'm betting the house, like $100,000. You go, kick back, have fun, talk to some of the fans, enjoy it.

Jonathan Vilma

#20. You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

Mike Birbiglia

#21. Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Thomas De Quincey

#22. I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they're young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work.

Arnold Palmer

#23. Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.

Yasunari Kawabata

#24. No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

Pete Rose

#25. Don't let your net worth determine your self worth.

Rick Warren

#26. You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

Derek Jeter

#27. Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

Ray Davies

#28. People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

Phil McGraw

#29. I'm kind of an idea guy.

Jeff Bridges

#30. I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now.
-Luciana

Susan Kay

#31. We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel

Philip Yancey