Game Quotes

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

I want to affect culture. I want to have my mark on everything. I give examples of people like Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones - those are the people who I look up to. The game wouldn't be the same without them. What happens in the course of 5 years isn't really important to me. I care about what they'll say about me in 50 years.

Mariah's fashion game is definitely on a different level than mine. She actually knows Roberto Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana. I didn't know those people actually existed; I thought they were just names.

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

I think life is a big game we play.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.

There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

I been in this game a long time.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

Treat your life like a game.

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

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

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.

Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.

I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!'

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.

Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.