Top 100 The Games Quotes
#1. I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#2. In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.
Sebastian Coe
#3. And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.
Suzanne Collins
#4. Everyone here contributes to win the games, so there is no pressure on any one player.
Bobby Abreu
#5. The reason this will happen, and happen soon, is that learners will demand it to the point that management, teachers and administrators can no longer resist. The workers of the Games Generations will no longer accept, attend, or do training that is boring. So
Marc Prensky
#6. I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.
Taufik Hidayat
#7. There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.
Mary Lou Retton
#8. Enough, I shall be understood in ten years by people who will be doing what you do today. Then my geysers will be known, my ice floes will be seen, the secret of adulterating my poisons will have been learned, the games of my soul will be revealed.
Antonin Artaud
#9. Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.
Suzanne Collins
#10. I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
Stu Jackson
#11. African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.
Alex Berenson
#12. There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
Bobby Fischer
#13. Politicians are fools and the games they play are fools games.
M.J. Rose
#14. Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.
James Paul Gee
#15. So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?" asks Caesar.
Haymitch shrugs. "I don't see that it makes that much difference. They'll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.
Suzanne Collins
#16. No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him. Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths. The very day the ships have made a brave show in the games, they are engulfed.
Seneca.
#17. Remember play the games, and don't let on that you know... mourn me even if you still feel me.
Nicole Tetterton
#18. I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.
Latrell Sprewell
#19. To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.
Sue Wicks
#20. The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.
Alexander Hanson
#21. I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back wherever I can this year. You sit back and enjoy the games, pop a little sports drink - not any pop or soda - lay back, watch the games. It's always cool to see how the games go down and just enjoy them.
Rob Gronkowski
#22. We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.
Cherie Piper
#23. The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.
Jay Leno
#24. Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.
Richard Attias
#25. Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship
the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.
Vivica Fox
#26. Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
Laure Manaudou
#27. When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.
Jermain Defoe
#28. You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
Hank Stram
#29. The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
Malachy McCourt
#30. Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
Sebastian Coe
#31. I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.
Boris Becker
#32. Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere
#33. Enough with the games, I know what you are, Nephilim and if you make one move, I promise I will carve you open." ~Zahara
Annabell Cadiz
#34. I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games.
Heather Mills
#35. The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
Gary Gygax
#36. I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
#37. Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?
Patricia Briggs
#38. Men automatically know from the moment she opens her mouth that if they want her, they'll have to get in line whith her standards and requirments, or keep it moving because she's done with the games and isn't interested in playing.
Steve Harvey
#39. I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
Caitlyn Jenner
#40. Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#41. The games enthralled the public and diverted their attentions from the Halo wars. And - unlike the arts - they could not be used as vehicles for subversion. For gamers like myself it was a near-utopian state of affairs. We were pampered and courted by the houses and made immensely rich.
Alastair Reynolds
#42. I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
Nolan Bushnell
#43. The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.
Danny Boyle
#44. Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and now. She looked at the games adults played and felt detached. It was easy to tell herself: "I'm not here.".
David Foenkinos
#45. My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played.
Helen Wills Moody
#46. The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
Dorothea Brande
#47. The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
Oscar Robertson
#48. Carra doesn't like me to fist him before the games, so I give him a high-five instead.
Pepe Reina
#49. Can the military art be learned in the games and hunts in which you pass your youth?" The
Barbara W. Tuchman
#50. Peeta doesn't need a brush to paint images from the Games. He works just as well in words.
Suzanne Collins
#51. My brother and I are always playing F1 on the PlayStation and now I am going to be in one of those cars on the games!
Lewis Hamilton
#52. Inspiration for my 'Nerdy Nummies' videos comes from all over. Many of the ideas originate from the games, comics or movies I'm excited about. My family is really creative as well and are constantly sending me their thoughts.
Rosanna Pansino
#53. Vampires are fond of their games. But the games that They play are different than the variants that I'm familiar with. The rules were made to be bent, broken, shattered - and somebody always gets hurt.
Always.
Nenia Campbell
#54. Having worked on 'Halo: Nightfall' and gotten a taste for what 'Halo' has to offer, it definitely has me interested in picking up the games and getting familiarized more with the 'Halo' universe.
Mike Colter
#55. I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. Congratulations to the new Wayne State men and women's rugby team for winning their inaugural victories on their very first weekend. I am sure there will plenty more victories for the "Children of the Corn", in the games to come.
Brian Vizard
#57. My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car.
Thomas Jones
#58. What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
Tanith Lee
#59. Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?
Suzanne Collins
#60. Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.
Sebastian Coe
#61. The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
Pierre De Coubertin
#62. I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
Cameron Van Der Burgh
#63. The ground is bare and hard / and will hold all secrets / and the sky cares not / for the games of those beneath it.
Steven Erikson
#64. What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
Caitlyn Jenner
#65. Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.
Ron Paul
#66. I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?
Rupert Sanders
#67. I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.
Joe Montana
#68. I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.
Brandi Chastain
#69. Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.
Robert Ludlum
#70. I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back door but I'm working everyday to exit through the main door!
Benjamin Boukpeti
#72. I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.
Kim Swift
#73. The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race is for us a continuation of our training, we will compete in only this World cup. We don't want to travel too much before the Olympic Games and we want to focus on the Games.
Pavol Hochschorner
#74. I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. "Katniss ... he's still trying to keep you alive." To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.
Suzanne Collins
#75. Classified ads of the Ku Klux Klan: Tired of all the games? Do you like racial purity, horses and dressing up like a ghost?
Dana Gould
#76. Sometimes I want to just say fuck the games and just tell her ass to come home so we can work things out, but she needs to grow and mature more before I can do that.
Mz. Toni
#77. I live more than anything else to produce the Games.
Dick Ebersol
#78. A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party ... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
Dan Jenkins
#79. The offense sells tickets and the defense wins the games.
Lindsey Nelson
#80. Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that
John Calipari
#81. I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.
Luis Suarez
#82. I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.
Richelle Mead
#83. When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.
Bill Gates
#84. The games we play are lessons we learn. He assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
Terry Pratchett
#85. It's a travesty for the games. It's cutting into the heart of this community.
Mike Dunlap
#86. Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.
Robin Macnaughton
#87. And I was tired already, tired of the games to come. If Jean-Claude would just let me shoot everyone in Musette's party tonight, it would save a lot of trouble. I just knew it would. I
Laurell K. Hamilton
#88. We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#89. My favorite memory from school was going to football games with my friends. We always had so much spirit and dressed up to go to the games, even though our team was pretty bad.
Erin Heatherton
#90. The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.
Jerry Brown
#91. I've reached an unexpected point in my life where I no longer have the passion that I once did for the company, for the games and for the challenge of creation,
Greg Zeschuk
#92. Above all I am hoping for trees, which may afford me some means of concealment and food and shelter. Often there are trees because barren landscapes are dull and the Games resolve too quickly without them.
Suzanne Collins
#93. I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.
Ray Lewis
#94. Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.
Lawrence Taylor
#95. As the CG in motion capture made it look realistic, it put more of an onus on the game makers to make the dialogue they're saying more realistic. It doesn't matter what they say when they're 8-bits, but if they look almost photo-real, it matters. More and more, the games industry is realising that.
David S.Goyer
#96. I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.
Elisabeth Shue
#97. You be at the games looking right all season, but you always with me on the night yall leaving.
Drake
#98. My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#99. I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.
Stephen Keshi
#100. You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.
Bill Gates
