The Game Change Quotes

#1. In other words, if you can't win the game, change the rules.

Eric Schmidt

#2. If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

Bebe

#3. Make the money, don't let the money make you.. Change the game, don't let the game change you

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#4. I think I can change the game.

Venus Williams

#5. Sometimes to win, you have to change the game.

J. B. Bernstein

#6. I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Gloria Steinem

#7. It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

Elizabeth Warren

#8. Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen.

Sandeep Sharma

#9. The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.

Ellen Goodman

#10. I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.

Conor McGregor

#11. Girls always want to change the rules in the middle of the game.

Katja Millay

#12. No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

Harvey MacKay

#13. The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

Connie Mack

#14. There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

Alex Steffen

#15. Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

Tracy Austin

#16. I believe the game should really feel what the players are feeling and change according to that.

Hideo Kojima

#17. Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am,
my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court

Jeremy Lin

#18. Before you start yelling at someone for their behavior, see why they are acting that way. Change the game and everyone can win.

Presh Talwalkar

#19. If ... if certain things should come to pass, I will send word to each of you. Things can change quickly in the game of thrones.

George R R Martin

#20. I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone to beat me.

Serena Williams

#21. Life is like poker. Fair, random and risky.
As your crappy hand can win the game without it being seen, and even change mid-game.
-Alan Hernandez

Alan Hernandez

#22. Things can change quickly in the game of thrones. Words are wind, and the wind is always blowing at the Wall.

George R R Martin

#23. Hey, Fnick can I change the channel, the game's on." -Iggy
"Make yourself at home, FIGGY" -Fang

James Patterson

#24. I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

Kobe Bryant

#25. The one's who want to make a difference, the people who can change the world for the better, are laughed out of the game by the players.

Joshua Grisham

#26. I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalising. I don't think anything's going to change in China until enough Chinese say, 'We're not going to play this game any more.'

Rebecca MacKinnon

#27. You have to remember that you only want to use your dunks at the right time. If you do it at the right time, you can wake up everybody and change the whole momentum of the game. It can get the crowd up, get your teammates up. It can wake up yourself, too, if you're not shooting well.

Dwyane Wade

#28. With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

Gail Sheehy

#29. You tried to play the game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outside.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#30. Don't let fear play with you; love is the game changer.

Bryant McGill

#31. Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.

Michael Ignatieff

#32. But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods? It doesn't change anything. It doesn't make things fair. It doesn't fill our stomachs. In fact it scares off nearby game.

Suzanne Collins

#33. 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

#34. If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

Bjorn Borg

#35. None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man, what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?

Austin Grossman

#36. I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

Richard Branson

#37. If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.

Alan Shearer

#38. I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

Angie Martinez

#39. Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.

Selena Haskins

#40. If we lose a game, I change up what I did that day, like if I eat something that day I will not eat the same thing again the next game day.

Kliff Kingsbury

#41. There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

Oliver Kahn

#42. If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Caitlin Stasey

#43. I'm a real genre jumper, but all good music belongs to the same family. I love Dave Sitek, a producer I've been working with a lot since I moved to L.A. He will change the game.

Erik Hassle

#44. Guillen wasn't finished about his intent to stick with Contreras with left-hander Neal Cotts warming up. He was dominating the Twins, ... People think I'm a bad manager or don't know the game or fall asleep during the game and wake up and change pitchers. I'm watching the same game they are.

Ozzie Guillen

#45. We unfortunately already live on a planet where the climate has changed and will continue to change no matter what we do now. We're playing a game of making the problem less bad rather than preventing it.

Alex Steffen

#46. Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Carlos Wallace

#47. I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

Seth Godin

#48. The first one, the one from the greenspace near the game center, the one who told me everything would be all right and nothing would change with my Match. Did she lie to me? Or did she tell the truth, and my choices made a lie of her words?

Ally Condie

#49. I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

Ayn Rand

#50. No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

Pat Gillick

#51. Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

Seth Godin

#52. Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.

John Rhys-Davies

#53. The game doesn't change.

Pedro Martinez

#54. Somewhere along the journey i lost myself; i learnt to be who they told me to be, i lived that girl for decades until their truth showed me; the words they were preaching didnt match the the steps they were walking, so i was done with their opinion and went on my unique way.

Nikki Rowe

#55. Understand that it is unlikely that you will change the size of the playing field to suit your needs. Playing your game at the edge can help to stretch the boundaries, but if it's too narrowly defined for you, start looking for a bigger field.

Lois P Frankel

#56. 'Entertainment Tonight' would send me out to do interviews with musicians like Sting and Coldplay, and I was able to watch how they plan their shows. The late Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead always had a game plan, but he also was flexible if he had to change something at the last minute.

John Tesh

#57. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

Gregory David Roberts

#58. The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

Donald Miller

#59. Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.

Tito Vilanova

#60. When a game cannot be won, change the game. I read that in the book of Kirk.

Mark Lawrence

#61. I would rather get out of the game than stay in the game to change the game.

Danielle LaPorte

#62. There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

Nas

#63. The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.

Sarah Palin

#64. Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Brett Favre

#65. If you have a juggernaut, you can make change. I'm all for that. If we could force people to always be connected when you play the game, and then have that be acceptable, awesome.

Tim Willits

#66. In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

Cary Fowler

#67. Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

Fernando Torres

#68. The committed person doesn't play by the rules of the game. He is responsible for the game. If the rules of the game stand in the way of achieving the vision, he will find ways to change the rules.

Peter M. Senge

#69. My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#70. Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

Esther Hicks

#71. So many of us get caught up into the race game that we forget that in the end we are just people trying to do better for ourselves and our families. My father use to have a saying, that in order to be great you have to do great things that change the world of people around you.

D.E. Rogers

#72. Don't hate the player; change the game

Steve Harvey

#73. One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

Gary Locke

#74. It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

Bernie De Koven

#75. Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.

Ernie Els

#76. I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

Anthony Hamilton

#77. It's not just enough to change the players. We've gotta change the game.

Barack Obama

#78. I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.

Annette Bening

#79. Game changers will, most of the time, throw you off your game.

S.A. Tawks

#80. And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name

Kanye West

#81. The game doesn't change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your food. It changes nothing but your life.

Don DeLillo

#82. When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.

T.F. Hodge

#83. The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.

Kevin Brockmeier

#84. Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

Patricia Briggs

#85. There are no ultimate ends. Only games and more games. The winner this round is the loser the next round. Only the game is eternal. And the game is always the same, if you never change the rules.

Gerard Jones

#86. I think we spent close to thirty Euros pumping change into a game called Area 51. If the earth is ever attacked by aliens, you're welcome to stand behind me.

C.J. Roberts

#87. Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your game, your bad luck will remain.

Baltasar Gracian

#88. The topdog may win the game of force. But not the moral issue - and when that dawns upon him and his allies, change of consciousness sets in, and demoralization starts thawing the frozen heart. The game is over.

Johan Galtung

#89. A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

Leonid Shamkovich

#90. I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

Todd Rogers

#91. If you ready to take your game to the next level, you gotta change that mindset.

Eric Thomas

#92. You know that we are not in the regime-change game. We are against interference in domestic conflicts.

Sergei Lavrov

#93. 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

#94. The game, whatever it was, had to be played out. If the change of rooms had been the opening gambit, so much the better. The game had to begin somewhere.

Ian Fleming

#95. The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.

Timothy O'Donnell

#96. I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome

Walt Frazier

#97. It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#98. Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

John McEnroe

#99. Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game.
Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.

Loren Weisman

#100. The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

Mike Lowry