Games famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
-- A. P. Herbert -
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
-- Abba Eban -
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
-- Abby Sunderland -
You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.
-- Abby Wambach -
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
-- Abdul Kalam -
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
-- Abhinav Bindra -
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
-- Abraham Pais -
You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!
-- Aceyalone -
Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.
-- Adam Dunn -
For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.
-- Adam Fletcher -
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
-- Adam Gopnik -
I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.
-- Adam Lambert -
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
-- Adam Osborne -
I've been punched by a vampire, an Indian girl, and a panda... I should be a video game.
-- Adam Rex -
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
-- Adam Sedgwick -
For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
-- Adam Shankman -
We want to get to a point where Twitter highlights lead to purchase of a live game
-- Adam Silver -
I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.
-- Ade Akinbiyi -
To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.
-- Adelina Sotnikova -
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
-- Adolph Rupp -
I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.
-- Adrian Peterson -
Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
-- Adrian Rogers -
It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.
-- Adrian Wilson -
I show up on the injury report as much as the statsheet, but if I’m healthy, I’m going to be a late-round steal in most leagues. Last year I had more than 1,000 yards on the ground despite my injuries, and I had six rushing touchdowns despite Andre Brown vulturing my goal line duties around mid-season. Now I’m in Indianapolis, and my new offensive coordinator is implementing a West Coast offense that should get me plenty of carries and a few catches each game. Plus, I’ll be the goal line guy. If I’m not wearing a boot.
-- Ahmad Bradshaw -
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.
-- Ai Weiwei -
The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go back, he'll Beat his wings 'til he burns them black... No, The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. . . The Moth don't care if The Flame is real, 'Cause Flame and Moth got a sweetheart deal. And nothing fuels a good flirtation, Like Need and Anger and Desperation... No, The Moth don't care if The Flame is real. . .
-- Aimee Mann -
When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.
-- Ajay Naidu -
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
-- Al Alvarez -
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
-- Al Alvarez -
A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.
-- Al Davis -
If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.
-- Al Davis -
Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.
-- Al Davis -
As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.
-- Al Kaline -
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
-- Al Leiter -
If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.
-- Al Michaels -
In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!
-- Al Yankovic -
Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.
-- Al Yankovic -
Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.
-- Alain Finkielkraut -
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
-- Alan Green -
It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
-- Alan Green -
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
-- Alan Green -
Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.
-- Alan Hansen -
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
-- Alan Hirsch -
In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.
-- Alan Kulwicki -
The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.
-- Alan Lewis -
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
-- Alan Lewis -
My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.
-- Alan Lewis -
But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.
-- Alan Lewis -
Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!
-- Alan Lewis -
I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.
-- Alan Page -
That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.
-- Alan Parry -
Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!
-- Alan Rufus -
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
-- Alan Shearer -
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 -
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
-- Alan Thicke -
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
-- Alan Turing -
Jeremy, are we going to play your games?
-- Alastair Campbell -
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
-- Alastair Campbell -
Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
-- Albert Einstein -
The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding -
Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.
-- Albert Pujols -
The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
-- Albert Shanker -
He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.
-- Albert Speer -
My game is going wrong - the star is setting
-- Alberto Ascari -
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.
-- Aldo Leopold -
If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I take pride in being one of the tougher guys helping the team pressure and there were so many times when I was watching the games that it just killed me inside. Sometimes I couldn't watch and would just walk around the top level of the stadium.
-- Alecko Eskandarian -
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.
-- Alessandro Del Piero -
I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.
-- Alex Ferguson -
As long as there are games to play its not over
-- Alex Ferguson -
The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.
-- Alex Ferguson -
As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares.
-- Alex Garland -
Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.
-- Alex Pacheco -
It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I'll use things like this for motivation. I'm pumped. I'm hungry.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
Michael Jordan told me the way he kept the crown was by always outworking everyone else because he knew everyone was always coming after him. You can sneak up on people when you are 18, 19, 20. It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
No golfers journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.
-- Alex Shoumatoff -
We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it.
-- Alex Smith -
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.
-- Alexander Elder -
The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess.
-- Alexander Kotov -
Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.
-- Alexander Kotov -
Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get into time trouble less often, that your games have more content to them, and that their general standard rises.
-- Alexander Kotov
