Game Quotes

‘Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.’ – Gary Lineker

‘I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.’ – Michael Jordan

‘If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.’ – Kanye West

‘Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.’ – Sai Baba

‘Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.’ – Sholom Aleichem

‘I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.’ – Rodney Dangerfield

‘You just have to take a deep breath, relax and let the game come to you.’ – A. J. Green

‘Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.’ – Emmitt Smith

‘Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.’ – Bob Feller

‘Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru

‘I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.’ – LeBron James

‘Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave.’ – Tupac Shakur

‘Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.’ – Wade Boggs

‘Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.’ – Mickey Mantle

‘If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.’ – Paul Newman

‘I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.’ – Steven Wright

‘If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.’ – Viswanathan Anand

‘There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.’ – Lionel Messi

‘Unfortunately, everyone thought that Teri Hatcher was my wife. Matter of fact, I would be with my wife, holding my wife’s hand at a football game, and someone would come up to me and say, ‘Hey, I love those commercials you do with your wife.’ My kids almost had shirts made up that said, ‘Teri Hatcher is not my mom.” – Howie Long

‘Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.’ – Babe Ruth

‘The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that’s what you’re judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.’ – Adam Goodes

‘Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.’ – Johan Cruyff

‘Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.’ – Voltaire

‘The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.’ – Bob Uecker

‘We’re gracious and we’re humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘Life is a game and true love is a trophy.’ – Rufus Wainwright

‘Cricket is a team game. No individual can just say he can win it on his own.’ – Inzamam-ul-Haq

‘We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.’ – Randy Pausch

‘It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two!’ – Ernie Banks

‘There’s a difference between fair game and playing games.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.’ – Ross Perot

‘Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.’ – Jerry Seinfeld

‘It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.’ – John Wooden

‘Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.’ – Walt Whitman

‘Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn’t good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.’ – Alex Morgan

‘But eventually it is a game of cricket.’ – Sachin Tendulkar

‘As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.’ – Larry Bird

‘A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.’ – Shigeru Miyamoto

‘I struggle with reading a bit. I’m slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I’m not a big book reader at all. And something like ‘Game of Thrones’ seems very daunting to me!’ – Thomas Brodie-Sangster

‘Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Time flies. It seems like just yesterday I was playing my first game against Ireland, when I came off the bench, full of energy and flying into tackles, even though I couldn’t tackle back then.’ – Beauden Barrett

‘We see that as ‘Fortnite’ evolves, it’s evolving beyond being a game.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.’ – Unknown

‘Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.’ – Naveen Jain

‘There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.’ – Casey Stengel

‘The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.’ – Florence Scovel Shinn

‘Politics is a dirty game. We have our rules in boxing. In politics, no rules. Especially a young democracy like Ukraine. It’s more like MMA.’ – Vitali Klitschko

‘I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!” – Demetri Martin

‘Punctuality and showing respect in the workplace are the foundations of success. Success is meaningless without them. I’m always looking to pass these lessons on to younger players, because they are the secret of excelling and developing your game.’ – Raul

‘We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.’ – Takeoff

‘They say baseball’s a game of failure. Well, that’s only true on the offensive side.’ – Clayton Kershaw

‘Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.’ – Paul Rodriguez

‘You can’t cheat the game. You can’t cheat the grind. You get out what you put in at the end of the day.’ – DaBaby

‘The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.’ – Bill Shankly

‘I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.’ – Shaquille O’Neal

‘If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.’ – Bill Nye

‘Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.’ – Earl Monroe

‘Baseball is a game based on adversity. It’s a game that’s going to test you repeatedly. It’s going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.’ – Theo Epstein

‘To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It’s part of the game. There’s always room to grow; there’s room to improve.’ – Aaron Judge

‘Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.’ – Le Corbusier

‘If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.’ – Warren Buffett

‘Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up.’ – Raphael Varane

‘I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.’ – Zane Grey

‘Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.’ – Michael Caine

‘Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.’ – George Will

‘Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don’t get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.’ – Damian Lillard

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

‘Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.’ – Ben Hogan

‘Michael Jordan taught me after our game of one-on-one: A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. When excuses are no longer an option, you can focus your attention on the job you have to do, and not why it didn’t get done.’ – Don Yaeger

‘I’ve never seen a player that can dominate a game the way LeBron James can. He don’t always have to score. He makes plays for other guys. But when the game is on the line, and you need a shot to be made, he’s going to make that play.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.’ – Magnus Carlsen

‘We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.’ – Young Thug

‘This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.’ – Rick Pitino

‘If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.’ – Rickey Henderson

‘A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.’ – Humphrey Bogart

‘You know, I think more people should watch women’s basketball. It’d do so much for the game.’ – Kevin Durant

‘It’s not how you play the game, it’s how you place the blame.’ – Don Simpson

‘I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.’ – Stephen Curry

‘Fifa has lost the trust of the people. We cannot allow the architects and controllers of world football to get away with dragging the beautiful game through the grime of corruption and bribery.’ – Sol Campbell

‘If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.’ – Quincy Jones

‘The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.’ – Peter Lynch

‘I’m sticking to the script, I’m putting that organic feeling back in the game.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.’ – Virat Kohli

‘Love is a game that two can play and both win.’ – Eva Gabor

‘If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.’ – Xabi Alonso

‘I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much as seems reasonable because the economists who use more mathematics are somehow more respected than those who use less. That’s the trend.’ – John Forbes Nash, Jr.

‘Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Tennis just a game, family is forever.’ – Serena Williams

‘Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.’ – Paul Harvey

‘I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.’ – Tom Brady

‘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

‘Life is a poker game, and everybody has to show their cards.’ – Kathy Hilton

‘Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.’ – Robert Greene

‘The game is not lost – or won – until the last bell goes.’ – John Curtin

‘Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.’ – David Hilbert

‘The game isn’t over till the clock says zero.’ – Paul Pierce

‘Real Madrid is a club where you have to go when you are mature and at the top of your game.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.’ – Lewis Grizzard

‘We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.’ – Anna Kendrick

‘Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.’ – Alice Cooper

‘The challenge is how to be better than the day before, than the previous game.’ – Mikel Arteta

‘If you look at the movie ‘Belly,’ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.’ – Kevin Gates

‘You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘Work-based learning is a game changer. It’s like test driving a career, and I have seen it in action with our registered apprenticeship programs for high school students.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘Football is about joy. It’s about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.’ – Ronaldinho

‘Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.’ – Joseph Brodsky

”Fortnite’ really is just the perfect storm of a game. You have the fact that it’s free to play on almost every platform, and everything about the game is enjoyable.’ – Ninja

‘Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.’ – V. E. Schwab

‘I think I’m unique to the game ’cause of my versatility.’ – Ice Cube

‘If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.’ – Bob Hope

‘A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.’ – Madeleine Albright

‘It’s not a game. You can’t play boxing.’ – Gervonta Davis

‘I’m in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.’ – Earl Weaver

‘The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.’ – Jwala Gutta

‘Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.’ – David Ortiz

‘If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.’ – Dean Smith

‘Over the years, golf has evolved from a leisurely game of stick and ball into a competitive sport for highly skilled athletes. Players not only spend countless hours fine-tuning technique on the course, but also improving strength, stability, and endurance in the gym.’ – Paige Spiranac

‘I believe that filmmaking – as, probably, is everything – is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you’ve got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.’ – Francis Ford Coppola

‘Rugby is a game that’s constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.’ – Owen Farrell

‘Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.’ – Tom Watson

‘Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.’ – Troy Vincent

‘I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.’ – Jim Kelly

‘Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.’ – Bill Tilden

‘To be one of the best to ever play the game? I think I have the ability to do that. But I’ve got to work hard. If I just keep talking and don’t put some work in, it’s not going to happen.’ – Giannis Antetokounmpo

‘I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘My game is characterised by consistency.’ – Alisson

‘After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis – a couples’ game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.’ – Steve Rushin

‘My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.’ – Timothy Leary

‘I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.’ – David Beckham

‘Sometimes it’s not always about what you can see or hear but what’s under the hood of a game that’s most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.’ – Rob Manuel

‘Poor people are too stupid to know they’re just chess pieces in a game.’ – Charles Barkley

‘You cannot win a game of football on your own; it’s about the entire squad working together to achieve something. That’s how football works: it has always been about the group, not the individual.’ – Lucy Bronze

‘No matter when or where, always bring your ‘A’ game, because you never know when it will open doors for you.’ – Simon Sinek

‘I’ve figured out that life in general is a team effort; it’s a team game.’ – Joe Namath

‘Football is a wonderful game which can be cruel at times.’ – Petr Cech

‘The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘I think we’ve overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.’ – Erwin McManus

‘I just play the game the only way I know. And I have no regrets.’ – Manu Ginobili

‘The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.’ – Gary Gygax

‘Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.’ – Mike Singletary

‘When you start the game with an ace, it’s always better.’ – David Goffin

‘In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan

‘After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.’ – Aristotle Onassis

‘Real Madrid are favourites in every championship and in every game, but we will stay humble in order to earn a victory.’ – Marcelo

‘War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘You have to fight till the last minute of the last game if you want to win it.’ – Jesus Navas

‘Don’t do anything in practice that you wouldn’t do in the game.’ – George Halas

‘Usually, about 2 hours before a game, I stuff in a nice peanut butter and jelly with chocolate milk.’ – Rob Gronkowski

‘The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.’ – Billie Jean King

‘The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. And since cause-and-effect reasoning needs the concept of time – of one thing preceding another – the effort to establish causality is a mug’s game, an infinite regression of increasingly unanswerable questions.’ – Greg Grandin

‘I think when you’re stressing, or worried about your performance, worrying about this and worrying about that, that’s when things start to get tough and you’re not enjoying it anymore and it becomes a job. Although it is our job to play, still you have to understand that it’s a game and you have to enjoy it.’ – Mookie Betts

‘They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.’ – Ted Williams

‘I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘Simplicity – that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that’s it – simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn’t exist.’ – Johnny Depp

‘Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game.’ – Bill Belichick

‘Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.’ – Chuck Noll

‘Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘My passion for this game is never going to change. You’re always going to see me have that fieriness to me. That’s just the only way I know how to play this game and I love it for that because I get to release that energy and that passion, that anger that I have.’ – Travis Kelce

‘Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won’t come out as one.’ – Honeysuckle Weeks

‘Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.’ – Vladimir Nabokov

‘You need to go with that mentality and play the game. No pressure. Yes, you need to do something. But it’s just a game.’ – Nikola Jokic

‘How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.’ – Cris Cyborg

‘I learn something new every game. Every game is always different, no matter how you try and think about it beforehand.’ – Marcus Rashford

‘As captain, I want us to be ambitious; I want us to be winners – but above all, I hope we will show how much we love the game by passing the ball and achieving success through our technical and tactical approach.’ – Steph Houghton

‘My work is a game, a very serious game.’ – M. C. Escher

‘The great thing about chess is it’s a game for oneself. You don’t work on what you can’t control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we’d all be a lot better off.’ – Daniel Naroditsky

‘Honestly, it’s important to not take this whole process of life on this planet too seriously. And you need games to remind you that every aspect of your experience on this planet is a game. And you have to be a good sport. You have to strategize, and you have to have fun.’ – RuPaul

‘Boxing is serious. It’s not a game. Just one punch – change life.’ – Gennady Golovkin

‘You’re as good as your next game, not your previous, so I’ll focus on the next one.’ – Alun Wyn Jones

‘When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.’ – Ajay Naidu

‘I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won’t say anything a dignified man won’t say.’ – Mike Tyson

‘I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.’ – Nobuo Uematsu

‘You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.’ – LeBron James

‘Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don’t we?’ – Pele

‘There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.’ – Johann Lamont

‘The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn’t end when you come off the court.’ – Pat Summitt

‘My dad was in radio; he was a broadcaster, and it was in the family. He hosted kind of a game show at one point on TV; he was the original host of ‘Good Day New York,’ and he hosted the Jerry Lewis telethon for 15 years.’ – Greg Fitzsimmons

‘Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.’ – Eugene McCarthy

‘I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.’ – Will Rogers

‘When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.’ – Fuzzy Zoeller

‘Play every game as if it is your last one.’ – Guy Lafleur

‘I always try to give my best and improve my skills as per the changing trends of the game.’ – Sandeep Singh

‘Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.’ – Willie Mays

‘I happen to believe that video games will be the largest sport and entertainment in the world. The reason for that is a video game can be every sport. You can be anybody.’ – Jensen Huang

‘Golf is a game with morals. There’s always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That’s why it’s a gentleman’s game.’ – Katt Williams

‘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.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.’ – Andre Maurois

‘I know what I bring to the table. I know my game offensively and defensively. I think I’m one of the best, if not the best, playing two-ways.’ – Paul George

‘Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Weirdness is not my game. I’m just a square boy from Wisconsin.’ – Willem Dafoe

‘You don’t notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.’ – Drew Curtis

‘I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish.’ – Jay Cooke

‘Baseball is a hard game. There’s going to be ups and downs.’ – Andrew Benintendi

‘Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.’ – Paul Hawken

‘I might go 0 for 4 in a game, but I still had a chance to help the team by making plays in the field.’ – Ken Griffey Jr.

‘I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.’ – Satchel Paige

‘Trying to predict the future is a loser’s game.’ – Ken Liu

‘I don’t have to prove myself to anyone. People know what I’m capable of. I’ve spent a long time in this game.’ – Jose Reyes

‘A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.’ – Earl Wilson

‘In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.’ – Bill Vaughan

‘Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.’ – Hikaru Nakamura

‘Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘I’m not the strongest, I’m not the fastest, I can’t jump the highest, so for me, it’s doing it in other ways: changing paces, using your body to get open, knowing your defender. A lot goes into it. You have to study the game.’ – Devin Booker

‘Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 40 years and I still haven’t the slightest idea how to play.’ – Gary Player

‘Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterbacks and the intellectual side of the game and how they really dissect defenses – and then the arm is something else that helps them with that.’ – Patrick Mahomes

‘The score never interested me, only the game.’ – Mae West

‘Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that’s going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that’s how you’re going to play in a game.’ – Brad Marchand

‘I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘I don’t live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.’ – Joe Montana

‘I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.’ – Ajith Kumar

‘The time your game is most vulnerable is when you’re ahead; never let up.’ – Rod Laver

‘My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can’t even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.’ – Marcel Duchamp

‘Since I first got my iPhone and ‘Super Monkey Ball’ came out, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is great.’ I’m always searching for the nirvana of mobile gaming, whether that’s from a Game Boy or a Vita or a PSP or now the Switch.’ – Todd Howard

‘Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you. I’m happy to share what I can, because I’m in it for the love of programming.’ – John Carmack

‘Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘I was always trying to stay one to two steps ahead of the game.’ – Ronnie Coleman

‘Life’s like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it’s the ninth inning.’ – Martin Goldsmith

‘How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.’ – Juliana Hatfield

‘If you’re not in the game, you can’t hit a home run.’ – David Hasselhoff

‘Playing with light is something that is very important, especially when you want cinematography in your game.’ – David Cage

‘We never give up until the ref’s final whistle, we never give up we try to score one more to win the game – that’s what we do.’ – Joao Moutinho

‘I could have been an architect, but I don’t think I’d have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.’ – Roger Waters

‘Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I can’t play this game forever. When I’m finished, maybe I’ll become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome.’ – Ed Reed

‘The integrity of the game is everything.’ – Peter Ueberroth

‘Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.’ – Phil Jackson

‘Everybody has to have his own style, his own game. Everybody has to be himself. I’m listening to nobody. I have my own mind, my own heart.’ – Alexander Ovechkin

‘If I’m on the pitch, I want to just try to give my best performance every game.’ – Son Heung-min

‘I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘You hope to bring your ‘A Game’ to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.’ – Edwin van der Sar

‘The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.’ – Robert Baden-Powell

‘Greatness is consistency. So, I’m preparing for next season like I do for any other season and to me it’s important to do it all over again. You know, show people that I’m capable of being at the top of my game every single year every night.’ – Leon Draisaitl

‘I remember that if you went down to the Crucible or other snooker tournaments it was all the snooker writers, and then all of a sudden when the game became popular on television it wasn’t only snooker writers: it was what we called special correspondents.’ – John Virgo

‘Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.’ – Francesco Totti

‘In the end, for me, football is still a game. Even if you are a professional, you need to have fun when you are on the field. If you don’t enjoy your job, you don’t have fun.’ – Kevin De Bruyne

‘I’m not playing this game just to be a good basketball player. I want to be one of the greatest to ever play.’ – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

‘Me and my sister made up a game called ‘Milky Cow’. We were on holiday in France when I was 12, and there was a kid who had bovine features, and every time we went past her, we’d say, ‘There’s Milky Cow’.’ – Greg Davies

‘There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.’ – Lou Gehrig

‘Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.’ – A. A. Milne

‘When your dad is your father, best friend and mentor, all in one, it’s hard to explain what he brings. He brings confidence and self-awareness through my game, on and off the court. I’m blessed to have him.’ – Jae Crowder

‘The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It’s not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it’s only a game.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘I don’t know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That’s the only thing that really matters, and if you’re the best player, surely you’re going to have some effect on the game’s outcome.’ – Larry Brown

‘We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. ‘Private Edwards, E.’, a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping… If war was a game of cards, I’d say someone was cheating.’ – Spike Milligan

‘The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.’ – Gordon Ramsay

‘Orange Is the New Black’ was a game changer for me; Laverne Cox’s Sophia Burset was the first trans series regular character I’d seen. She was Black and she was a multi-dimensional person.’ – Brian Michael Smith

‘Children’s games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules – that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.’ – Jean Piaget

‘In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory – and I think it’s pretty well borne out – is that in the ’80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.’ – Nolan Bushnell

‘The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.’ – Tony Romo

‘Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.’ – Stephen Curry

‘Talent is not enough. It’s a mental game. You have to deal with frustration when you don’t play, you have to deal with the pressure. There are no excuses.’ – Emiliano Martinez

‘One day I’m going to be older, and I’m still going to want to win championships, win rings. And when that happens, I have to make sure the next guys saw how to play the game the right way. If I just jog, they are watching. If I don’t go all-out, they are watching that. I know they are always watching.’ – Juan Soto

‘I think players tend to get anxious if they’ve not really done things properly – like eating, resting or training. If you’re fully prepared you’ve got nothing to worry about – it’s just a game of football.’ – Roy Keane

‘Ninety percent of my game is mental. It’s my concentration that has gotten me this far.’ – Chris Evert

‘Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.’ – Lionel Messi

‘Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘This game, every day will teach you a new lesson.’ – Fernando Tatis Jr.

‘I have a couple of rules. Number one, get competitive. Number two, win a game. Number three, win two games in a row. Number four, win a championship.’ – Jim Harbaugh

‘Even though you’re irritated or disappointed about a game, never lose your human side.’ – Edgar Davids

‘It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I’d rather go fishing for three days.’ – Whitey Herzog

‘Football is a game of opinions, and some people have a great opinion of me, and some people probably think I’m absolutely useless.’ – Joe Hart

‘If you want to make money playing poker, find a game with a few suckers, fish, donkeys, live ones, or whatever you choose to call a bad player. Just don’t let that sucker be you.’ – Daniel Negreanu

‘When I say artist I mean the man who is building things – creating molding the earth – whether it be the plains of the west – or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction – some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen.’ – Jackson Pollock

‘A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘Listen, if you don’t talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don’t think big, you don’t get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It’s all in how you want to dissect it.’ – Vanilla Ice

‘Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.’ – Jacques Barzun

‘People will buy hardware just to buy a single game if the game is really compelling.’ – Satoru Iwata

‘If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.’ – Hayden Fry

‘It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.’ – Kara Walker

‘In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!’ – Zig Ziglar

‘We’re going to have a moment. It’s coming: just that breakthrough that’s going to give us a cool factor, and more people will want to be a part of it. Because that, to me, is the only thing we’re lacking – that social thing: ‘It’s cool to go to a WNBA game.” – Sue Bird

‘One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.’ – Bear Bryant

‘Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You’ve got to – you’ve got the human game preserve to play off of. And it’s a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you’re playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.’ – Robin Williams

‘I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.’ – Conor McGregor

‘Something people wouldn’t expect me to do is I play this computer game called ‘Runescape.’ I’ve played ‘Runescape’ since forever. Since I was, like, six. It is still one of my favourite games ever.’ – Lil Peep

‘Everybody is going to have a bad game. One game does not decide somebody’s season.’ – Doug Pederson

‘Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.’ – Arthur Rubinstein

‘There’s a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, ‘Mia san mia.’ Literally, it is, ‘We are we,’ but it means, ‘We are who we are.’ That’s not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.’ – Bastian Schweinsteiger

‘Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.’ – Jocko Willink

‘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

‘I know that there’s a god because I was able to survive everything that I’ve been through – all of the tough times – and I’m still at the top of my game.’ – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

‘A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.’ – Steven Biko

‘Cricket is a team game. If you want fame for yourself, go play an individual game.’ – Gautam Gambhir

‘I’m trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.’ – Dennis Rodman

‘When you’re preparing for a game, you prepare like you’re starting. But if you’re not, if you’re coming off the bench, everybody has a role.’ – Tyler Herro

‘We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it.’ – Buck Leonard

‘My parents are divorced, but they have and always are there for me. They’ve never missed a ball game or anything else I’ve done, and we’ve always been so close.’ – Eric Winter

‘You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over.’ – Naomi Osaka

‘Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.’ – Jason Hammel

‘There is always going to be another game and another day.’ – Brandon Ingram

‘I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.’ – Trent Reznor

‘I’m getting better and better each year that I’m playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient – something that is key to our game.’ – Jason Day

‘A lot of people can throw darts. Its just how they think about the game. Thats how Ive improved. My mind is different.’ – Gerwyn Price

‘Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one’s opponent will never become a good Chess player.’ – Max Euwe

‘Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win – preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.’ – John Rhys-Davies

‘Look at music for what it’s worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it’s all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.’ – Snoop Dogg

‘Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game’s over.’ – Mary Schmich

‘Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It’s no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.’ – Carli Lloyd

‘Motion capture is exactly what it says: it’s physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance – including your facial performance. If you’re doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor’s performance: audio, facial and physical.’ – Andy Serkis

‘Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘I’m learning from every game and trying to make a difference.’ – Rishabh Pant

‘I haven’t thought of retirement yet, but when I stop enjoying the game or when injuries force me, I will quit.’ – Sania Mirza

‘I don’t consider myself to be bigger than nobody else in this game, so I’m not here to tell people what to rap about.’ – Pimp C

‘It can be very emotional to develop young guys and put them in the right direction. I love it. I love it when they are players for the youth team and then for the first time in their lives they play in a professional game.’ – Julian Nagelsmann

‘Women of my generation who’ve stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘No one can take away what I’ve done in this game. Everything I’ve done, I’ve earned it so far.’ – Jay Park

‘I’m a student of the game, and any time you take more reps in a game, it’s going to prepare you more.’ – Saquon Barkley

‘My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.’ – Barry Sanders

‘Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there’ll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don’t have configuration management, don’t have vulnerability management, don’t have patch management.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.’ – Ted Turner

‘I’m at my best when people are depending on me. If it’s just on me and I don’t have nothing to do, I’m going to be lazy. On the football field, it’s every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.’ – Von Miller

‘I just hate to see people look down their nose at our game when there’s a very small percentage of players who are cheating.’ – Chipper Jones

‘I always try to find better ways to do things. Whether it’s a game plan, a practice, a meeting, an interview, whatever it is. I’m going to find a way to find a way to analyze it and find a better way to do it. That’s my mindset. I’ve never been satisfied with anything. That’s just my mindset. I’m always trying to find a better way to do things.’ – Lane Kiffin

‘The 3-point line has changed the game so much. The day of the big man, unless you’re extraordinary good, is not numbered, but certainly you gotta be a lot more versatile to play the game today. You gotta be able to really run up and down the court.’ – Jerry West

‘Doesn’t matter what people say, doesn’t matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.’ – Miguel Cabrera

‘Size doesn’t really matter. It’s all about the mental aspect of the game and having the heart. I have a lot of heart and I take a lot of pride in what I do. That’s what got me over the hump.’ – Tavon Austin

‘When I was a youth, to be called ‘African’ was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I’m saying lyrics like, ‘I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,’ that was a big deal for me.’ – Skepta

‘I don’t play no one else’s game and I don’t run no one else’s race because if I did that, I wouldn’t be who I am.’ – Roddy Ricch

‘I’ve separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I’ve messed up my knee a million times. I’ve broken my foot in several places. I’ve broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It’s part of the game.’ – Ronda Rousey

‘Treat your life like a game.’ – Ray Dalio

‘Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.’ – Tom Landry

‘I don’t like traffic cameras. In fact, I hate them. But that doesn’t mean I can break the speed limit and run red lights to get to a New Orleans Saints game.’ – John Kennedy

‘There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘You can learn something from everyone in ‘Game of Thrones,’ whether it is something you learn not to do or something you learn to do.’ – Isaac Hempstead Wright

‘The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.’ – Michael Jordan

‘I didn’t have a good time with Lancashire in 2000. Probably I’d played too much cricket and should have taken a rest, but I went there when the offer came because I had always had an ambition to play the county game in England. And I was a bit jaded. And I didn’t do myself justice. I want to put that right before I finish my career.’ – Sourav Ganguly

‘I’m just going to play whatever game is in front of me.’ – Tim Duncan

‘I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It’s very thin, it’s made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.’ – Harlan Coben

‘It’s all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn’t move the game forward – the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please – so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.’ – Bonnie Hammer

‘Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that’s what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that’s part of your responsibility, and you learn that’s what makes it exciting. That’s what makes it fun!’ – Wayne Gretzky

‘I’m a very analytical guy, I like to study my swing, I like to study what my back foot is doing, my elbow, whatever it might be, and there’s a lot of guys nowadays that are like that. That’s the trend of the game, that’s the way the game has gone.’ – J. D. Martinez

‘So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.’ – Thierry Henry

‘The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.’ – Dane Cook

‘I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it’s half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.’ – Althea Gibson

‘Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘You can get caught up in making and missing shots, but the game is so much more.’ – Rajon Rondo

‘There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.’ – Gary Gygax

‘You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.’ – Douglas Adams

‘Politics is not a tit-for-tat game. It’s not ‘I helped you, now you help me.” – Amanda Knox

‘People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe’s record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand.’ – Hank Aaron

‘I’ve often said, ‘If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.’ Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler.’ – John Madden

‘The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there’s a lot of other junk that goes around the game.’ – George Karl

‘Never give up and never stop playing until the game is over.’ – Ronald Acuna Jr.

‘It’s an honor to be selected to the All-Star Game. It’s not something I take for granted.’ – Buster Posey

‘I don’t consider myself an A-list celebrity or a big dog, but every time I meet somebody, even rappers who’ve been in the game for years… they’re like, ‘Man, I’m trying to get on your level.” – Wiz Khalifa

‘It doesn’t feel good in the NFL when you lose a football game until you get out there and win another one and another one.’ – Joe Flacco

‘To win you’ve got to stay in the game.’ – Claude M. Bristol

‘My only feeling about superstition is that it’s unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.’ – Duffy Daugherty

‘Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.’ – Nancy Lopez

‘There has been evolution in many different areas – the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology… I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.’ – Leonard Bacon

‘Beast Mode doesn’t make excuses. It doesn’t complain. Whatever you’re doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.’ – Matt Kemp

‘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.’ – Earl Campbell

‘The fear of failing… not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.’ – AB de Villiers

‘The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.’ – John Major

‘When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.’ – Dale Steyn

‘I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you’ve just Xeroxed something twice. I think that’s where a lot of the criticism comes from – there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.’ – Edgar Wright

‘I’m a science guy. I’m a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe I’d be a professional guide, or maybe even a park ranger, working for the Department of Fish and Game.’ – Paul Walker

‘As a fast bowler, if you are out of the game for five months, then that can be catastrophic, but to be out of the game for five years was very tough, and to make a comeback after such a lengthy period with no cricket behind me was a difficult ask.’ – Mohammad Amir

‘My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.’ – LeBron James

‘That’s the only thing I’m jealous about ‘Game of Thrones’: they get to go to Spain all the time.’ – Travis Fimmel

‘As far as how I create games, I’m just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I’m going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it’s a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.’ – Hideo Kojima

‘I feel this emptiness in me, like I still got something to prove and I still got so much stuff to work on in my game.’ – Willie Cauley-Stein

‘I look at Mike Tyson as a fighter. He don’t go out there to play. He goes out there to hurt because he’s in the hurt game. That’s what I like about him.’ – Nigel Benn

‘Part of the game is moving on. And you do.’ – Chris Hughton

‘I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.’ – Jonah Hill

‘I think dancing is a man’s game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.’ – Gene Kelly

‘I understood my path and what I meant to the game and what I mean to kids. Not only kids, but individuals around the world. Folks that didn’t think that the game was meant for smaller people. For me, I always felt that, tall or small, the game was for all.’ – Muggsy Bogues

‘As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.’ – Lee Trevino

‘The end game is always a hit song.’ – Scott Borchetta

‘You look at the best players in the game – Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr – they didn’t sit on the couch and then one day join the NHL. They worked on their game. Their talent was perseverance, dedication. Those are talents to me; that’s what gets you to the NHL.’ – P.K. Subban

‘Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.’ – Richard Levin

‘The most amazing set where I’ve shot ‘Game of Thrones’ is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It’s such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.’ – Natalie Dormer

‘Everyone knows I am fast, so I have to change the way I play. I always know I have to change the way I score. Every game is different.’ – Mohamed Salah

‘An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it’s promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on!’ – Brittany Bowe

‘I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate – it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.’ – Mae Jemison

‘The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.’ – Bob Schieffer

‘I always go into matches telling myself that I want to score or make an assist. As a striker, you have to do that. Of course, it’s not possible in every game. There are only a small amount of players that can really do that, and even they struggle sometimes.’ – Kai Havertz

‘One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.’ – Anthony Rizzo

‘You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.’ – Bobby Knight

‘The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.’ – Andre Ward

‘Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn’t lend itself to histrionics. You ‘take in’ a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.’ – Rick Riordan

‘You need passion and commitment in your sport or else you will never survive that long. Of course you also have to give it your best shot and be responsible for your own behaviour both on and off the field before you can fully enjoy the game for such a long period of time.’ – Javier Zanetti

‘I don’t care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.’ – Gale Sayers

‘On every job you do, you’ve got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do – you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things – I don’t think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.’ – Ray Winstone

‘To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.’ – Shane Warne

‘The bigger the game, the better I liked it. Not that I was about to let anybody know I was excited. I approached every game the same way. One pitch, one hitter at a time.’ – Catfish Hunter

‘I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘When you’re at your absolute, most exhausted… That’s when you have to be at the top of your game.’ – Bill Hader

‘At the end of the day, it’s a game. You play the best that you can. You need to keep a smile. You need to be nice to others. Everybody’s trying hard.’ – Dinesh Karthik

‘A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.’ – Reinhold Messner

‘You don’t cut anywhere, don’t pick down anywhere, don’t double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don’t happen anymore.’ – Oscar Robertson

‘To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It’s often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It’s the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.’ – Andrew Luck

‘In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that’s not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.’ – Matthew Perry

‘The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.’ – Ron Jaworski

‘The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘Football is a game you play with your mind.’ – Johan Cruyff

‘What’s so cool about ‘Light of the Seven’ – and what I love about ‘Game of Thrones’ – is you never know what’s going to happen.’ – Ramin Djawadi

‘Soccer is a magical game.’ – David Beckham

‘People look at me like I’m on my way out of the game. I’m just getting started.’ – Carmelo Anthony

‘My goal every year is to come in and be consistent. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first game of the year or it’s the last game of the year.’ – Aaron Judge

‘I’ve got to be right on top of the action, or else all those people watching the game will say, ‘This guy’s not very good.” – Chick Hearn

‘Coming from Canada, I’ve always had people doubt me or doubt my ability. We’re just going to keep letting our game talk.’ – Jamal Murray

‘I love mobile gaming. I love being able to take everything with me. If I start a game on my Wii U, say, I want to be able to pick it up on my DS and take it with me when I’m traveling.’ – iJustine

‘The first time I saw ‘Minecraft,’ people wanted to have 8-bit style video game music. But I wanted to go around that and make something organic and partly electronic, partly acoustic, and see if that would be interesting.’ – C418

‘Honestly, I don’t listen to nobody else’s music but my own. It’s kind of like sports to me. You don’t see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game – he just works on his own game. And that’s what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.’ – Lil Wayne

‘Winning is the deodorant of the game, it covers all bad smells.’ – Steve Nicol

‘It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse receipts are issued and circulate as equivalent to the cash supposedly represented by those receipts.’ – Murray Rothbard

‘For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.’ – A. Bartlett Giamatti

‘For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.’ – Liam Neeson

‘The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it’s really anybody’s game out there.’ – Shaun White

‘The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘Gaming is one of those things that’s pretty amazing because when you think about it, everybody wants to game; whether you’re a casual gamer, or you’re an enthusiast gamer, there’s a large market for us.’ – Lisa Su

‘We see a lot of gory deaths on ‘Game of Thrones.” – Esme Bianco

‘Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.’ – Charlie Munger

‘I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest… The game – if those guys actually played hard in that game, it’d be the best watch ever.’ – Jeff Van Gundy

‘Just seeing the progression, the evolution of the NBA game, I feel like you have a lot of big men shooting 3s.’ – Al Horford

‘I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You’re being paid to play a game! That’s pretty special.’ – Bobby Orr

‘Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am. Therefore, I want to play in all formats of the game and to play as much as possible because, before long, it will be over.’ – MS Dhoni

‘Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.’ – Keith Barry

‘You can’t break the rules until you know how to play the game.’ – Rickie Lee Jones

‘My mindset is the same every game.’ – Kawhi Leonard

‘I don’t think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game.’ – Xabi Alonso

‘But in the end it’s still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can’t shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you’ve missed the point.’ – Payne Stewart

‘There’s nothing I’ve ever worked on that beat ‘Game of Thrones’ – that’s a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.’ – Jason Momoa

‘During the season, you just grind, it’s a cat-and-mouse game.’ – Cody Bellinger

‘Let’s build a country of opportunities, where everybody is equal before the law and where the rules of the game are honest and transparent, and the same for everyone.’ – Volodymyr Zelensky

‘The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.’ – Michael Jordan

‘I like to play with architecture! It’s my favorite game.’ – Jean Nouvel

‘You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you’re outscored.’ – John Wooden

‘You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he’ll be booed. I don’t care if he’s the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.’ – Mark Russell

‘We go into every game looking to win them.’ – Harry Maguire

‘Manny Smith & Interscope CEO John Janick understand me and my vision for myself and also my label. Interscope gave me the opportunity to take over the game completely, and that’s what I’m going to do.’ – Rich the Kid

‘I play really hard. I put my body on the line every damn practice. Every day in the games. That’s my passion. That’s how I give to the game.’ – Jimmy Butler

‘In practice, I think I’ve thrown it 82 yards, one time. In a game, I don’t think I’ve pushed it that far – probably 60, 65 yards in the air.’ – Josh Allen

‘I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: ‘What’s the meaning of life? What if I don’t like this job I’ve been programmed to do?” – Rich Moore

‘We play a sport. It’s a game. At the end of the day, that’s all it is, is a game. It doesn’t make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you’re no better. By losing a game, you’re no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.’ – Tim Tebow

‘Baseball is a game of inches.’ – Branch Rickey

‘You can’t lose a game in which you’re not even competing.’ – Robert Kocharian

‘I’ve realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don’t want to get injured because then I can’t take care of my kids.’ – Kristi Yamaguchi

‘We can’t always play the perfect game.’ – Virgil van Dijk

‘I don’t think there is any 16-year-old who is going to embark on the sort of career that Sachin Tendulkar has had and walk away from the game at 40 with such great achievements. He’s the Muhammad Ali and the Michael Jordan of cricket.’ – Brian Lara

‘There are no words to describe the Clasico. It is totally different and the most important game in the world.’ – Sergio Ramos

‘I don’t know if anyone’s ever done that, where they do a big college game and then do a game in the NFL. It would have to be a Monday game, obviously. If it were a Sunday game I wouldn’t be able to do college and pro. Ideally, in a perfect world, I would love the challenge of trying to do both.’ – Kirk Herbstreit

‘I wore No. 19 because of Bryan Trottier. I liked the overall aspect of his game. I liked the way he conducted himself on the ice. He was a quiet guy. He played really hard; just a good all-around, prototypical center man who could do everything.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn’t have any cellulite then.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘It’s a goalkeeper’s job. There’s so many times you’re doing nothing for 89, 90 minutes, and then there’s a split-second moment. It’s a different challenge to outfield players, who have a lot of physical challenges and battle. We have a lot of mental battles; it’s about maintaining your focus, refining processes of what you do in a game.’ – Karen Bardsley

‘It was a privilege and an honor to work alongside Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Working with people at the top of their game was like a master class.’ – Shangela

‘Every game is decided by one or two plays that teams do or don’t make; you’ve got to make them or else you lose.’ – Joe Burrow

‘Basketball is like life and life is like basketball. It’s just a game. So lets play the best we can while we are still here with love, compassion, selflessness fairplay and supporting each other to be bigger and better human beings.’ – Vlade Divac

‘My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.’ – Dave Barry

‘Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.’ – Warren Buffett

‘Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There’s no faking that kind of emotion. You can’t invent the feeling. It’s got to be natural, real.’ – Dan Marino

‘The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘I’ve been in the game a long time. I’ve done all sorts of different types of music. From mob music to the G-Funk era.’ – E-40

‘Instead of yelling and spanking, which don’t work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention – turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.’ – Patricia Richardson

‘For anybody that grow a beard or have hair on their face, I welcome you to the beard game. We’re all family. I encourage that. I encourage beards.’ – Rick Ross

‘Number four, we’re going to play like winners, play the game the way it’s meant to be played. Don’t get full of yourself if something good happens. Don’t get too depressed when something bad happens.’ – Steve Spurrier

‘Cloud Gaming means that the game doesn’t need to be downloaded and run on your computer; it literally means the game runs out on the Internet, in the cloud, with the experience being streamed to the players.’ – David Perry

‘When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.’ – D. B. Weiss

‘People, my age, people older, people younger, it’s like they look up to me. They listen to my lyrics for wisdom. They listen to my lyrics for like game. They listen to my lyrics for real deal beneficial purposes.’ – Young Dolph

‘If I played a bad game, there’s gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.’ – Kevin Knox

‘You play to win the game.’ – Herm Edwards

‘The nature of the game is pain.’ – LL Cool J

‘Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest – or that at least they didn’t cheat. So as a ‘Dating Game’ bachelor, I didn’t know what I was going to be asked. The other bachelors and I were required to concoct our answers in real time.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Mark Jackson played 19, 20 years in the NBA. Shouldn’t even have probably been in the league, and he’s the third-ranked assist guy in the NBA. But you describe his game: Can he jump? No, not really. How’s his outside shot? Eh, it’s inconsistent. Can he defend? Nah, he can’t stay in front of guys. And he played 19 years!’ – Kenny Smith

‘You don’t realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.’ – Mickey Mantle

‘First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in ‘True Lies.’ Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. ‘Smashes’ stereotypes. That’s where I’ve come into the game.’ – Riz Ahmed

‘If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.’ – Vannevar Bush

‘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

‘Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.’ – Helen Hayes

‘Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.’ – Russell Lynes

‘I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It’s like a Tetris game.’ – Neil Patrick Harris

‘My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.’ – Julia Gillard

‘You’ll never hear me say anything cocky or outlandish, but I always thought if I was starting Game 1 in the playoffs, then we were ahead 2-0 in the series because I would get at least that many starts.’ – John Smoltz

‘We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.’ – Vicente del Bosque

‘I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.’ – Ruud Gullit

‘Game development is very difficult. Nobody sets out to create a game that’s not fun. It’s all of the challenges and difficulties that happen throughout development that determine whether a game is a failure or a success. I think playing those thousands of games is the single best and easiest way to learn from my predecessors.’ – Masahiro Sakurai

‘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.’ – Steve Carell

‘When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘If immigration is simply seen as a numbers game, nobody will ever win that debate. The question should be: what is it we want to achieve? What do we expect of those who are arriving? What is the basic deal?’ – Keir Starmer

‘My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.’ – Sachin Tendulkar

‘I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.’ – Eden Hazard

‘I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.’ – Lady Gaga

‘Play with no fear. Just enjoy the game.’ – Joe Thornton

‘Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘I can’t worry about techs. I’ve got to play my game.’ – Draymond Green

‘I’ve never been one to shy away from a challenge and I’ve never been one to shay away from talking a big game.’ – Aljamain Sterling

‘I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.’ – Roberta Williams

‘I’m learning from my past mistakes and trying to correct them as I move forward. Experience at the international level has probably taught me what it takes to probably go out there and get a 100 or to build an innings or to win a game.’ – Rohit Sharma

‘It’s never OK to lose a game.’ – Nick Saban

‘Maybe I’ll try my hand at a pizzeria tycoon game, who knows.’ – Scott Cawthon

‘I think the game’s evolving – it always is. You don’t want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.’ – Davis Webb

‘I’ve had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I’m game. I’m game for that kind of thing. I’m certainly not too vain in that respect. If it’s a great role, I’m willing to do whatever it is that it takes.’ – Jewel Staite

‘I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.’ – Phil Robertson

‘I’m overly confident. I believe in myself 100 percent. I believe in my game, and I believe in my work ethic.’ – Jaylen Brown

‘Changing the game is a mindset.’ – Robert Rodriguez

‘Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.’ – Serge Schmemann

‘The WNBA changed the equation for a young female broadcaster who wanted nothing more than to remain close to the game, and call basketball games.’ – Doris Burke

‘I think politics is a dirty game. We’ve seen the sides that they take; we’ve seen the commentary they have had on my father.’ – Donald Trump, Jr.

‘The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.’ – David Baszucki

‘I’m like everyone, I would hope for a fair and equal society and making great strides to create opportunities for women in the men’s game.’ – Emma Hayes

‘I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football.’ – Hank Williams Jr.

‘A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.’ – Andrew Ng

‘I’ve always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.’ – Stanley Druckenmiller

‘If the rules aren’t going to protect the integrity of the game, then they’re wrong.’ – Tony Finau

‘Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game idea. I was weighing my options when I went to Activision, but when I saw what they were working on, I said, ‘This is exactly what I’d love to be involved with,’ and following that gut reaction was hugely successful.’ – Tony Hawk

‘Philly, I feel like, is where I became a man and matured my game and became better. I went through the good and the bad with my teammates and it taught me a lot. With the fans and all, it was a great experience.’ – Jrue Holiday

‘I read the three ‘Hunger Games’ books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote ‘Just a Game.” – Birdy

‘I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn’t want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!’ – Jason Aldean

‘I can understand why people don’t like fox hunting, but I really can’t see why anyone other than vegans can object to game shooting.’ – Harry Enfield

‘At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it’s going to be your last one.’ – Shannon Miller

‘I think what makes ‘Jeopardy!’ special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.’ – Alex Trebek

‘Specifically, my favorite tool in Java is hot code swapping in debug mode, meaning I can edit the code while the game is running and immediately see the results in the running game. This is super great for rapid tweaking.’ – Markus Persson

‘Working-class students more often lack the advice, guidance and support needed to navigate the tricky application process, whereas their wealthy peers at top public schools have admissions tutors to help their students game the system.’ – Angela Rayner

‘In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.’ – Alan Kulwicki

‘You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.’ – Cal Ripken, Jr.

‘I don’t have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.’ – Carl Paladino

‘I don’t look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It’s a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘Big hits are part of the game. So, paramount to every time I train is just to focus on staying healthy and doing everything I can to stay healthy.’ – Zach Ertz

‘When I play the game, I play to win.’ – Lonzo Ball

‘I thought ‘Game of Thrones’ had this challenge in filming, and it’s one of those things you think, ‘It can’t get worse than this,’ because it’s really cold, and you’re in pain, and it’s miserable.’ – Richard Madden

‘Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.’ – Graeme Le Saux

‘You go through slumps. The shot feels good in practice and looks good and for whatever reason in the game, they’re in and out. Sometimes it gets frustrating, but for me, I’ve played in the league long enough to know you just have to put in the work in practice and shoot with confidence, shoot your way out of it.’ – Gordon Hayward

‘Footwork is the foundation to my offensive game. Being able to move, pivot around and dribble better were the big things I wanted to add to my game, as well as stretching out my game so I can shoot away from the basket better.’ – Brittney Griner

‘I like to get more than my normal 10 hours of sleep nights before a game.’ – Tim Howard

‘In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through – if it is labored, it fails.’ – Edwin Lutyens

‘Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.’ – Pedro Martinez

‘We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy – not for the money, but for the glory of winning.’ – Kid Nichols

‘Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.’ – Dan Quayle

‘Overcoming challenges by learning something in a game is a very rewarding feeling, and that’s what I wanted to prioritise in ‘Dark Souls’ and ‘Demon’s Souls.” – Hidetaka Miyazaki

‘You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.’ – Lawrence Taylor

‘The lunatic racist left is starting to lose. So, as is always the case, change the rules of the game, obfuscate, argue about definitions.’ – Will Cain

‘It’s not easy to win every game.’ – Ryan Mason

‘Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.’ – George Berkeley

‘Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.’ – Casey Stengel

‘A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment – clear achievement that we don’t necessarily get from real life. In a game, you’ve beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn’t like that, right?’ – Jesse Schell

‘I’ve done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It’s a big part of mixed martial arts.’ – Joe Rogan

‘My experience with video games is a far cry from ‘WWE 2K17.’ Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it’s a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it’s an accolade that I’m greatly appreciative of.’ – Bill Goldberg

‘My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don’t think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.’ – Denis Leary

‘This game is obviously about failure. You’re going to fail most of the time. It’s how you handle it.’ – Mookie Betts

‘I was one of those players who loved to train and tried to enjoy every day, every session, every game.’ – Carles Puyol

‘You can’t worry about the last game so much, because you’re always moving on to the next one.’ – Ja Morant

‘The man who has no problems is out of the game.’ – Elbert Hubbard

‘They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England.’ – Kevin Keegan

‘I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I’m waiting for it to stop, and the team’s manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he’s already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, ‘If you screw this up, they will boo you.’ And I said ‘Thanks.” – Julia Stiles

‘To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.’ – Keith Richards

‘People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it’s easy to be chewed up and spat out. You’ve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.’ – Kate Moss

‘You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you’re going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.’ – Joe Lo Truglio

‘Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of ‘Game of Thrones.” – Peter Dinklage

‘I’m so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.’ – Hrithik Roshan

‘Fiction novels, that’s my game.’ – David Benioff

‘And that’s what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.’ – Nolan Ryan

‘Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.’ – Paul Brown

‘Becoming vegan changed my life and the way I cook – and I know folks can relate to the daily challenge of making the whole family happy with one meal, so we decided to make a game of it.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.’ – Viswanathan Anand

‘I think flag football is a great alternative, and it’s a great game in its own right. It’s a wonderful alternative. You can develop all of the skills and athleticism and glean the lessons you can from contact football through playing flag.’ – Chris Borland

‘The game of investing is a process of discovering who you are, what you’re interested in, what you’re good at, what you love to do, then magnifying that until you gain a sizable edge over all the other people.’ – Li Lu

‘The more you put in your body, the more you have to regulate it with insulin. So later kickoffs, you’re talking about breakfast, lunch and a pregame meal, so that’s more food you’ve got to be aware of and what you put in your body. A noon game, light breakfast, a little fruit and some insulin, and I’m good to go.’ – Jay Cutler

‘Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.’ – Dave Van Ronk

‘In the playoffs, you have seven games. If you mess a game up, there’s usually not an upset.’ – Domantas Sabonis

‘For every game we play, I might have spent 12 hours working on the video alone. In an hour, the players have to understand everything you have seen in 12 hours.’ – Unai Emery

‘Hard work doesn’t start during the game. Hard work starts the night before.’ – Ken Griffey Jr.

‘Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.’ – James Altucher

‘There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.’ – Alexander McQueen

”Fortnite’ is the same game on all platforms, including high-end consoles and PCs.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘I’m a competitive type of person, whether it’s playing a game of basketball or playing business games.’ – Chuck Feeney

‘You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.’ – Malik Jackson

‘I know the game well. I’m a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.’ – Kenyon Martin

‘I was a huge fan of ‘Game Of Thrones.’ I hadn’t read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.’ – Nathalie Emmanuel

‘Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.’ – Vladimir Kramnik

‘The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.’ – John Muir

‘I’ve met a lot of military men in my time. After they retire, they are still extremely game. They dress perfectly and have impeccable manners. They always end up as secretaries of golf clubs. I have great admiration for them.’ – David Jason

‘I’m committed to the fight game.’ – Conor McGregor

‘Game shows are like golf and tennis are for some men. It’s not like going to work.’ – Nipsey Russell

‘The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.’ – Michael Jordan

‘I didn’t play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.’ – Ryne Sandberg

‘Assimilation, not success, is the American end game.’ – Euny Hong

‘Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.’ – Ice Cube

‘Nobody wants to play bad football in a game; everybody wants to win, and every player wants to show how good he is. But, you know, sometimes you simply have a game where nothing is happening.’ – Dimitar Berbatov

‘After my last audition for ‘Game of Thrones,’ they said, ‘Congratulations, princess.’ I was like, ‘Bye-bye, call centre.” – Emilia Clarke

‘I like playmakers, man, if it’s a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who’s going to be able to change the game.’ – Chris Harris, Jr.

‘In terms of cultural upbringing, I’d be at the temple at the weekend – I’m a Hindu – but I’d also be at the Saints game as well on a Saturday – you do everything, you do both.’ – Rishi Sunak

‘Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I’ve worked on, it’s part of me.’ – Lionel Messi

‘You want to try to play the game in a really good positive way, not just on the field but off the field as well in being a positive person and getting good vibes out to the community.’ – Israel Folau

‘Having a pitch clock, if you have ball-strike implications, that’s messing with the fabric of the game. There’s no clock in baseball, and there’s no clock in baseball for a reason.’ – Max Scherzer

‘Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000 scouts got up in the stands and screamed in cadence, ‘Yea, yea, Big Al. Yea, yea, Big Al.” – Saul Alinsky

‘Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘The All-Star Game represents everything we as a nation love about basketball on and off the court – diversity, sportsmanship and, most of all, a commitment to unite fans.’ – Casey Wasserman

‘I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.’ – Bill Veeck

‘Pre-season is warm-up for the season so if you can do it in pre-season then you can do it in the season. So it’s always better to go out there and give it your all, get your fitness and make sure you perform, because obviously sometimes managers take performances in pre-season to decide if you’re going to start the first game of the season.’ – Michail Antonio

‘Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.’ – Ben Hecht

‘If any player has a bad game it’s there in the back of your mind in the next game. There’s always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.’ – Rio Ferdinand

‘Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.’ – Bill Gates

‘In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.’ – Anita Brookner

‘The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.’ – Neymar

‘Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.’ – David Ortiz

‘I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.’ – Garry Kasparov

‘Anyone who’s married to Mariah Carey – I’m pretty sure – doesn’t have a great sense of humor. I mean, let’s be honest: she’s ridiculous. What is her game plan?’ – Chelsea Handler

‘The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.’ – Sunil Chhetri

‘Us boss chicks have to continue to stick together and change the game.’ – Megan Thee Stallion

‘My dad has been my coach since I was seven years old – from 7 to 18 is when he coached my club team – and so it was always in the family. He introduced me to soccer at a young age and also kind of molded me into a good player at a young age, too. Which then I grew to love the game and be as passionate as he was.’ – Ali Krieger

‘Even when you’re successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic… So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you’re dealing with problems.’ – Bill Parcells

‘Love is a game in which one always cheats.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there’s a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.’ – Frank Gehry

‘Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!’ – John Ciardi

‘If I were in the middle of some kind of legal issue, I would get in my car and drive to Fenway. I’d get to the game early and sit in my seats and say, ‘I’m home, I’m happy, and I love it here.’ It was my therapy.’ – Joseph Abboud

‘My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.’ – Steve Albini

‘I worked at a Web development shop and other start-ups and eventually started a project called Ludicorp, which built an online game. We soon ran out of money, and Flickr was the last-ditch effort to save the company. It quickly became a very unstoppable juggernaut.’ – Caterina Fake

‘Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.’ – Ted Williams

‘One weird thing about me: I come home from practice or a game or whatever, and somehow my left sock always seems to get off my foot, and I end up walking around with one sock on.’ – Michael Beasley

‘A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.’ – Robert Byrne

‘I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while, I realized I’d always stink. And that’s when I really started to enjoy the game.’ – Don Rickles

‘When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series ‘Game Of Thrones’ is based, I was struck by one thing. The whole point of this saga is that ruthlessness pays, that evil generally wins, that justice is non-existent, and utter cynicism the only wisdom. It is the Middle Ages without the saving grace of Christianity.’ – Peter Hitchens

‘There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth… It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.’ – George Mikes

‘With ‘Hot Ones: The Game Show,’ we’re excited to flip the script and give everyday people the chance to achieve hot sauce glory.’ – Sean Evans

‘Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.’ – Sparky Anderson

‘I’ve always looked up to John Terry; he’s a massive defender and a rock. His one-v-one defending and reading of the game have really educated me. I watch a lot of clips of him.’ – Millie Bright

‘I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘I don’t know whether I am mentally tough or not, but one thing I know is that I like the game and spend as much time as possible on it.’ – K. L. Rahul

”Game of Thrones’ is a good one to binge-watch, except you realize at the end of every episode that you’ve been holding your breath for, like, 30 minutes, which is probably not good for your brain.’ – Justin Hartley

‘Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don’t have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can’t stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there’s too much stimulation.’ – Temple Grandin

‘You’ve got to accept in this game that there are going to be tough times.’ – Michael Clarke

‘Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.’ – Gary Gygax

‘I have a hunger to grow and to learn, so coaching is a natural extension of a lifelong love of the game of volleyball.’ – Karch Kiraly

‘It was a fun ride. I’ve enjoyed my time on the ice and I’ve enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.’ – Ron Francis

‘The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it’s a dangerous game for a lot of people.’ – Keith Urban

‘Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.’ – Maxwell Maltz

‘I like to be funny. I can’t stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘I’ve never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.’ – Marshawn Lynch

‘The game needs to be funded by sponsors, by members, by broadcasters. There needs to be a commercial relationship between the FFA and the people who supply the money so it is a natural alliance. Sport is not a charity.’ – Frank Lowy

‘Play your own game, but also ‘play the man.’ I take the view that my opponents are not there for me to ignore, rather to help me in my choice of shots. That means I have to be a good decision maker.’ – Seve Ballesteros

‘I am an advent Arsenal fan, so wherever I am doesn’t matter what time it is, when they’re playing I have to get up and watch the game.’ – Charlie Heaton

‘For me, the very first video game I ever played would have been ‘Return of the Jedi’ on the Atari 2600.’ – Matthew Mercer

”The Man Who Never Was,’ by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant – incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.’ – Ben Macintyre

‘Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.’ – Bill Shankly

‘Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.’ – Marcus Garvey

‘You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.’ – LeBron James

‘Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘I play the game purely out of love.’ – Jude Bellingham

‘I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.’ – Willie Mays

‘Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.’ – Winston Churchill

‘I think everybody knows if they played a good or a bad game.’ – Christian Eriksen

‘I’ll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won’t change.’ – Trae Young

‘I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘The only Batman that doesn’t need parodying is Adam West, but everybody else is fair game.’ – Pete Holmes

‘It’s more than a game. It’s an institution.’ – Thomas Hughes

‘If I hadn’t become a chef I would have loved to be a top tennis player, although I was never good enough so it wasn’t really an option. But that has never dimmed my love of the game, which started in childhood when I was lucky enough to be a ball boy at Wimbledon.’ – Ainsley Harriott

‘Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.’ – Octavio Paz

‘With all franchise cricket going on around in the world, the intensity of the game, sometimes is a burden.’ – Brian Lara

‘I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.’ – Rickey Henderson

‘I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, ‘What’s your end game? What’s your goal with this?’ And I said to him, ‘You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.’ And he said, ‘OK’.’ – Ki Hong Lee

‘I’ve always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that’s just the way you play the game – aggressive. There’s no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.’ – Andrew Whitworth

‘When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.’ – Tom Landry

‘I was obsessed with ‘Top Spin’ for some reason, and I wanted to be the best in the game. I think at one time on Xbox Live I was ranked about 60th. I just couldn’t put that one down.’ – Christian Cage

‘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.’ – Eric Davis

‘I think every part of your game, on this golf course, needs to be good. You’ve got to hit every club in the bag. You need to drive it well, hit your irons well, and always, if you want to have a chance to win a Major, then you’ve got to putt it well.’ – Dustin Johnson

‘Some games you going to play great. Some games you’re not. So, it’s all about moving on to the next game, next possession. Just come in there every day working, figuring out what you got to work on and see what you did wrong in either in the last game or the last season or whatever.’ – Derrick Favors

‘In the United States, viewers don’t get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn’t get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.’ – Brooke Burke

‘Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.’ – Phil Jackson

‘I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.’ – Stephen Curry

‘Unraveling the threads of a good game story is like solving a well-crafted puzzle. After a lengthy, sometimes difficult journey, the pieces click into place, and you’re rewarded with the satisfying payoff of a job well done.’ – Jason Schreier

‘From one week to the next, everything changes from who you’re playing to the defense’s scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward.’ – Matt Cassel

‘In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.’ – Jose Mourinho

”The Imitation Game’ is a very British film.’ – Morten Tyldum

‘War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.’ – Scott Ritter

‘The reality is, it’s a hard game physically, and the older you get, the competitor in you and the player in you obviously want to keep playing and keep going, and through the rivers of the season, your family and friends are certainly taking the brunt of all the positives and negatives going on.’ – Jason Kelce

‘My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I’d freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that’s your decision.’ – Regina Brett

‘I don’t think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don’t think that’s the story. We don’t play this game to hurt one another.’ – Michael Vick

‘Watching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It’s the only way to break down your opponents.’ – Tony Parker

‘You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we’re playing a game. It’s a business, it’s our job, but I don’t think you can do well unless you’re having fun.’ – Derek Jeter

‘Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It’s a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.’ – Bill Budge

‘Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘If you play this game long enough, you’re going to get your tail kicked at least once.’ – Antonio Brown

‘There is but one game and that game is baseball.’ – John McGraw

‘Golf is such a wonderful game. I love it to death.’ – Charlie Sifford

‘Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it’s why I’ve always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.’ – Mario Balotelli

‘Football is a sad game.’ – George Best

‘I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.’ – Wayne Gretzky

‘A lot of guys kind of get complacent with how they do in one game, but I just want to compete. So every game I play in, it’s a brand new beginning for me.’ – Donte DiVincenzo

‘I just got addicted to getting better. My coach gave me a goal to get a tip dunk in a game – you know, a putback dunk off a rebound. I had never done that. He told me that he’d get me a pair of new shoes if I did it. I just kept trying. I couldn’t get it, couldn’t get it, couldn’t get it. It took me a year or so. Finally, one game, I got it.’ – Steven Adams

‘Normally after a game I want to eat something that I know is filling. Steak is one of my options for protein. For me, it’s all about keeping my weight on. Because I’m more slender, I actually tend to lose weight during the season so I actually have to eat more so that I can keep the weight on.’ – Mike Conley Jr.

‘The wine I produce is not for keeping. It’s the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.’ – Gerard Depardieu

‘All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘Then there’s going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I’m going back to film it next week. It’s a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet.’ – Jeremy Bulloch

‘I’m an ambitious player who wants success and I want to win every game in every competition we’re in.’ – Bruno Fernandes

‘To be a poet, it’s a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you’re happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.’ – Eileen Myles

‘Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these – it’s a state of mind.’ – Martin H. Fischer

‘My daughter is the biggest gift; I’ve said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you’ve cracked it, and you’re on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.’ – Geri Halliwell

‘What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people’s game is the most boring thing.’ – Ronnie Corbett

‘Even now I can say I’d love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.’ – Steven Gerrard

‘I’ve seen Canada grow on so many different levels when it comes to basketball. The women’s game is huge, so why not have a WNBA team here?’ – Dwane Casey

‘The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn’t there. When you hesitate, usually you’re in trouble.’ – Sidney Crosby

‘I watch a little bit of tape to pick up small stuff, but I don’t try to pick apart my opponent’s game plan. I’m going to keep coming forward. I don’t ever take a step backward. I get hit, and I’m right back into range.’ – Justin Gaethje

‘If you got the game, you got the game. That’s why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.’ – Shaquille O’Neal

‘We play a game called, ‘Peru ball,’ it’s a game we invented in Peru. The rules are so simple. You play with a football and one team’s going one direction, the other team’s going the other direction. Get the ball across the line, the length of a soccer goal. That’s it, that’s the only rules.’ – Jim Harbaugh

‘I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.’ – Sidharth Malhotra

‘I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.’ – Ben Hogan

‘I’ve been working on my defense and my inside game.’ – Ryan Garcia

‘People don’t understand the analogy of football and acting, but there’s a great deal of it that’s the same. You get dressed in the room, and you think you’ve got it all prepared, and later on in the game you wish you had put on more pads ’cause they’re just kicking the hell out of you. God almighty, I’ve been beat up by the best.’ – Burt Reynolds

‘We’ve got to lift our game tremendously. We’ll sell our business news and information in print, we’ll sell it to anyone who’s got a cable system, and we’ll sell it on the Web.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.’ – Michael Irvin

‘I never expect to get submitted, but that is the game.’ – Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

‘That’s what makes great players great and elite players elite is the people that master the fundamentals of this game, and I stray away from it.’ – Minkah Fitzpatrick

‘For Germany, the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary. The loss of the war was as certain as the loss of an end game under these conditions.’ – Werner Heisenberg

‘There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.’ – Pete Rose

‘In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.’ – Wade Boggs

‘It’s all like an NBA game. You got the stadium full, and you got the fans. Half of them are booing you, but the other half is cheering you on. That’s just how it goes.’ – Moneybagg Yo

‘I know my game. I know what I need to get better at and be better at.’ – Kristaps Porzingis

‘I’ve got to perfect my game. Keep working.’ – Giannis Antetokounmpo

‘I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what’s best for the player. And you say what’s best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.’ – Kirby Smart

‘My best game is to move without the ball. To create situations.’ – John Havlicek

‘I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.’ – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

‘I’ve played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.’ – Mesut Ozil

‘As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin’ to assassinate my character, that’s impossible. You talkin’ about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.’ – Suge Knight

‘Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.’ – Bob Uecker

‘Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.’ – Mike Schmidt

‘I’ve got two Rolexes that I’m very proud of – a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I’m trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.’ – J. Cole

‘I had never heard of Meghan before. I was beautifully surprised when I walked into that room and saw her, and there she was, sitting there. I thought, ‘I am really going to have to up my game here, sit down, and make sure I’ve got a good chat.” – Prince Harry

‘I can kick your head off, but I can’t, like, play a stupid little video game.’ – Kelly Hu

‘As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don’t even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn’t get you very far at all.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘Of course, we’re going to talk trash or whatever. Both teams just want to win the game.’ – Nikola Jokic

‘Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.’ – S. Jay Olshansky

‘Most people don’t know who I am in the industry. I’m far from ‘Conan’ and ‘Game of Thrones.” – Jason Momoa

‘Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.’ – Edi Rama

‘I was 0-11 as a starter, and there were times when I walked off the field wondering if I’d ever win a game in the NFL.’ – Troy Aikman

‘Loneliness sucks. It’s a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.’ – Lynn Coady

‘I’m not a starstuck dude. I’ve been in this game too long for that, but I do respect and acknowledge real work and real work ethic.’ – Aldis Hodge

‘What’s great about ‘Game of Thrones’ is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you’ll go, ‘Oh my God, horrible’, and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.’ – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

‘There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.’ – James P. Carse

‘Brave plays the long game on behalf of users first, and also publishers, to win a better Web with fast, safe browsing, anonymous micropayments, and user control over data.’ – Brendan Eich

‘I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘I conceived the original ‘Deus Ex’ and was the project director on the game.’ – Warren Spector

‘No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.’ – Tom Watson

‘I will do anything a team asks me to do. If it’s to come off the bench, I would impact the game by coming off the bench. If I were to start, I would impact the game as a starter. I would impact the game either way.’ – Jordan Clarkson

‘Before ‘Final Fantasy VII,’ I would have told you that I had zero interest in RPGs with turn-based combat. But that game was so well done, I didn’t care what genre it was. Any genre can be done poorly or done well.’ – Tim Schafer

‘Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn’t really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.’ – Kit Harington

‘Go for great. Own your game. Be kind. Get big things done.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I’m really happy with ‘WWE ’12.’ It’s amazing. The fact that I’m in a video game is incredible; it’s a dream come true.’ – Alberto Del Rio

‘A game is a game. I don’t think we will change… should have shorter sets. No, do simple things to let people enter through a door that makes them be excited. If you let all the players express themselves, show who they are.’ – Patrick Mouratoglou

‘Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.’ – Shigeru Miyamoto

‘I have a traditional view of the afterlife… heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it’s on purpose. We aren’t supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.’ – Doug TenNapel

‘It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.’ – Marcus Allen

‘To put on the pinstripe – it’s extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.’ – Aaron Judge

‘Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.’ – Anthony Mackie

‘The ground game is a very good strength to have.’ – Mackenzie Dern

‘My dad really liked Didier Drogba and there was always a Chelsea game on when I was growing up.’ – Alphonso Davies

‘You know how many people would give up their life to get in one NBA game or NFL game or get one fight? Just to do something that has been a dream and they’ve aspired to do for their whole life – can you imagine what that means for a person?’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘Just small things are going to hopefully lead to a bigger surplus in the end. Obviously, you might not see it every single game, every single detail, but those small things and those small details add up so much, and that’s what creates winning.’ – John Collins

‘I see I’m changing the game and opening doors for others, from my beginning from the east end of London. It’s not a sob story; it made me the person I am today. It’s seeing kids from any area or background you’re from. There’s a chance; you can make it.’ – Alex Scott

‘My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.’ – Andy Rooney

‘Don’t be afraid to fail. You’re going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won’t get. It’s very easy to think, ‘This is not going to work for me,’ but keep at it. It’s very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.’ – Ike Barinholtz

‘When you search for Fortnite on iOS, you’ll often get PUBG or Minecraft ads. Whoever bought that ad in front of us is the top result when searching for Fortnite. It’s just a bad experience. Why not just make the game available direct to users, instead of having the store get between us and our customers and inject all kinds of cruft like that?’ – Tim Sweeney

‘With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I’m flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever.’ – Dr. Disrespect

‘If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn’t be a human being, you’d be a game show host.’ – Gabriel Heatter

‘The work I do with my physiotherapist has been instrumental in keeping me healthy, and it’s a big reason why I’m able to continue to improve my game.’ – Kevin Anderson

‘I have my way of doing things, because I am that way, I try to raise my voice to motivate team-mates and make them aware that if they lose a ball it is not a problem, so I try to motivate my team-mates and to speak to them and, because I see the game from the back I see everything in front of me; communication on the field can help a lot.’ – Jorginho

‘Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody’s going down.’ – Lance Armstrong

‘Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.’ – Ralph Steadman

‘Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.’ – Lukasz Fabianski

‘Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.’ – Jerry Seinfeld

‘I got my first football when I was two and played my first proper game before I was five. So nothing else was ever an option!’ – Manuel Neuer

‘My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house.’ – Gillian Flynn

‘Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I’ll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.’ – Junior Seau

‘For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.’ – George Vecsey

‘Acting in a new movie or series will be challenging, especially after ‘Squid Game,’ so I intend not to limit myself to a specific genre.’ – HoYeon Jung

‘A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.’ – Oliver Kahn

‘James Harden changed my life. An entire page could be dedicated just to James. He not only transformed my life but also revolutionized the game of basketball – and continues to do so – like almost no one has before.’ – Daryl Morey

‘I just want to go out there and do whatever I can to win the game.’ – Le’Veon Bell

‘The only thing I want to do is keep working and keep giving everything I can in every game.’ – Virgil van Dijk

‘I’m dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.’ – Francis Lee

‘We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can’t really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.’ – Will Wright

‘I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can’t keep up.’ – Daniel Nestor

‘My job is to pay attention to the feel of the game and always add a positive energy to it on my team through the ups and downs of the game.’ – Iman Shumpert

‘A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘Running out the tunnel and hearing my name called out for the first time, stepping out before the game. I just had a different type of feeling, it was amazing, like I actually made it to the NBA.’ – Collin Sexton

‘I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.’ – Jason Kidd

‘Every game I play, I try to make sure I get something out of that match. So as a cricketer, I feel you have to move forward and keep believing in your ability.’ – Vijay Shankar

‘Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.’ – John Leonard

‘If you go back to the history of the ‘Madden’ game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I’d been cursed. And I’ve never had that feeling.’ – John Madden

‘I listen to music on the bus or in the car on the way to a game.’ – Maya Moore

‘I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.’ – Conor McGregor

‘To me, what Minecraft represents is more than a hit game franchise. It’s this open-world platform. If you think about it, it’s the one game parents want their kids to play.’ – Satya Nadella

‘Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.’ – Mickey Rivers

‘Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.’ – Damian Lillard

‘If you are going to talk negative about a place, you’re almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.’ – Jordan Spieth

‘It’s why we play the game… postseason.’ – Alex Bregman

‘Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game’s two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘I had good and bad seasons for Essex. I was a real form player: if I got on a run, I was happy and confident, but if I had a bad trot, I was far too analytical of my game, worried about it too much and my form got worse.’ – Nasser Hussain

‘You will make a mistake in a game, fair enough, but you want your team-mates to help you out because it is a team game.’ – Harry Kewell

‘Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.’ – Joe Paterno

‘With ‘Girlfriends,’ even with ‘The Game,’ or even with ‘Being Mary Jane,’ I didn’t get a chance to wrap up the story and, more specifically, show love.’ – Mara Brock Akil

‘Walmart is going to be very good at this e-commerce game.’ – John Layfield

‘You can lose a game with the kicking game faster than you can with offense and defense.’ – Mike Webster

‘Lee Chong Wei is no doubt the best men’s singles opponent I’ve played, and this gives me extra motivation to raise my game each time I play against him.’ – Lin Dan

‘I want to help grow the game in India and encourage young kids to play football.’ – Timothy F. Cahill

‘Creativity is a game changer. That’s true of society, in advertising and in life.’ – David Droga

‘I’ve seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who’ve been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.’ – David Beckham

‘Every flaw you have or lapse of concentration can cost you a goal, so you have to be on your toes every minute of the game.’ – Edwin van der Sar

‘I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with ‘Space Jam.’ Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.’ – Zach LaVine

‘The Big Ten championship game is one of our goals year in and year out. So that’s just the focus.’ – Ryan Day

‘I’m a creature of routine. When the regular season ends I immediately dedicate myself to getting game ready for the opener of the next campaign in the fall.’ – Jason Collins

‘To win those big games you’re going to have to complete some third-down passes, you’re going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game.’ – Tony Dungy

‘I feel that a world in which you only see what you want to see is incomplete. And as a game creator, I am only here to prepare a game that will expand the breadth of your thinking, and leave the decision between good and evil up to the players.’ – Yoko Taro

‘When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.’ – Alex Ferguson

‘A lot of performance is based on confidence, knowing what you’re doing, and being familiar, and not thinking too much and trying to play at confident game speed.’ – Bill Belichick

‘Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.’ – Gordon Ramsay

‘I’ve stated my position, and that is we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we’d play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘KL Rahul has the technique for all forms of the game and for me more Test cricket than anything else. And if he performs so well in T20s and the 50-overs game, I think Test cricket is really where he’s made for.’ – Brian Lara

‘Years and years ago, I did a game based on ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.’ – Douglas Adams

‘Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.’ – Sachin Tendulkar

‘Paul Goldschmidt, who gave me the confidence to lead as one of the game’s greatest players, acknowledged that what I had to say was valuable to my teammates and crucial to winning.’ – J. D. Martinez

‘Once you’re a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can’t get it completely out of your head.’ – Magnus Carlsen

‘A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.’ – Virat Kohli

‘Scouting and player development is the key to year-in and year-out success, not the occasional lucky hit. There are no definitive answers in this game, no shortcuts. When you think you’ve got it all figured out, you can get humbled very quickly.’ – Theo Epstein

‘Once you work and work out as hard as I do, you gain confidence and it translates to the game.’ – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

‘For me, sometimes it’s more important to perform well in training and know that I am improving rather than scoring in a game. It’s doing the hard work, day in, day out.’ – Marcus Rashford

‘Don’t define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.’ – Todd Howard

‘I’m not going to go out there and say that I’m better than X, I’m better than Y. I think I’m the best tight end in the game.’ – Travis Kelce

‘I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.’ – Stephen Curry

‘You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB’s game… even though the media likes to make it into that – it takes the whole team.’ – Joe Montana

‘Asian players are very eager to work hard, but they don’t have the physicality of the Europeans, so they might actually need to work twice as hard. With street football, their skills will improve a lot, and so will their tactical awareness, because by playing within a limited space, you need to be very focused on your game.’ – Edgar Davids

‘It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.’ – Anthony Rizzo

‘One day, you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don’t laugh. Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It’s a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.’ – Gary Gygax

‘I give a lot of instruction in training. It’s difficult for me to do the same in matches, so I need guys on the pitch to read the game, to understand what we want.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘I actually watched Tom Brady a good amount in college. My coach in college was Kliff Kingsbury, and he actually was a backup for Brady at one point, and so he showed me things that he liked with Tom and his pocket movements and stuff he did within the pocket that I’ve tried to put in my game a little bit.’ – Patrick Mahomes

‘Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.’ – Johan Cruyff

‘It’s been years since I’ve had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I’ve just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.’ – Bear Bryant

‘But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.’ – Larry Bird

‘My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.’ – LeBron James

‘There is no bad time to laugh. I always joke, even five minutes before a game. It’s not bad to stay a little immature.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘The formula to beat the press is simple; it’s the execution that’s tough. If you have the quality to do so, you pass your way through it. And if you don’t, you just boot it over the top. And then it becomes a game of winning ‘second balls’.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘Passion isn’t something you work on. It’s more important to construct a good team, to know how you are going to play, how to read the match. You have to truly understand the game.’ – Xabi Alonso

‘My girlfriend has read all the ‘Game of Thrones’ books – twice.’ – Thomas Brodie-Sangster

‘The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.’ – Demetri Martin

‘We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘Songwriting’s a weird game. I never intended to become one – I fell into this by mistake, and I can’t get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.’ – Keith Richards

‘My mom, she wasn’t like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.’ – David Ortiz

‘Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.’ – Warren Buffett

‘I don’t put on makeup when I’m getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?’ – Carli Lloyd

‘When results aren’t good the manager gets the sack, that’s the game.’ – Roy Keane

‘In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I’d make one a week and finally I’d pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I’m trying to keep it down to one a season.’ – Lou Gehrig

‘The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.’ – Ernie Banks

‘You look at today, it’s a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot – a three-point shot – or a dunk.’ – Oscar Robertson

‘I do something that I don’t think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn’t the announcer warm up?’ – Chick Hearn

‘Whether it’s a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game – I play the same. I’m always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.’ – Lionel Messi

‘Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I’m cocky? Does that mean I’m arrogant?’ – Rickey Henderson

‘It’s not ideal for me to miss any time. I love the game. I want to be out there. I can’t stand sitting the back watching games. I want to be out there fighting with my team.’ – Devin Booker

‘Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.’ – John Wooden

‘At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.’ – George Halas

‘It’s easier for me to let the game just come to me.’ – Carmelo Anthony

‘A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.’ – Robert Baden-Powell

‘I have bitten down or swallowed a few pellets through the years. My uncle had his appendix removed and there were over 100 lead pellets in it. He might have died of lead poisoning. Now that is eating a lot of game!’ – Phil Robertson

‘A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.’ – Robert Greene

‘My game reflects my origins. It’s a working-class style, because my game is based on energy and hard work.’ – Jude Bellingham

‘If the spaces open up in the attack, then of course I’m willing to take it because I love to get involved; I love to get crosses in. I love to do combinations and just bring a different aspect to our game.’ – Ali Krieger

‘We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.’ – Nobuo Uematsu

‘Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.’ – Bob Feller

‘As soon as I discovered PlayStation, I was throwing hints here and there to my dad – cutting out the clipping of a video game, cutting out the clippings of the PlayStation, leaving it on his dresser. I remember on Christmas morning, I unwrapped my gift, and sure enough, it was the PS2. I’ve been a PlayStation guy ever since.’ – Paul George

‘In many ways ‘Fortnite’ is like a social network. People are just in the game with strangers; they’re playing with friends and using ‘Fortnite’ as a foundation to communicate.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that’s actually why it’s so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.’ – Matthew Perry

‘My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.’ – Ronaldinho

‘Chess: It’s like alcohol. It’s a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘Steam is not really leading the PC in any creative way, but it certainly has proved that the PC is a viable commercial platform by having a product that is amazingly easy to use for the end user, to the point where it’s easier to buy a game on Steam than it is to pirate it.’ – Markus Persson

‘I don’t ever judge somebody by what comes out of their mouth ’cause I don’t know what they’re thinking. Sometimes people might just say things just to see how you react about it. People might say things to you just to try to throw you off your game. Doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a racist.’ – P.K. Subban

‘We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that’s when you know it’s game over.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.’ – Conor McGregor

‘When it comes to the game of life, I figure I’ve played the whole course.’ – Lee Trevino

‘In front of 40,000 people, you don’t really want to drop a catch or misfield. It’s part and parcel of the game.’ – MS Dhoni

‘I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.’ – Liam Neeson

‘I’m busy working on every aspect of my game – defense, shooting, rebounding – but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.’ – Kevin Durant

‘Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan – and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘The mental game is what separates the good players from the great players. So anything I can do to get that mental edge to help me stay my best, I’m gonna try and do it.’ – Aaron Judge

‘I’ve read all the ‘Game of Thrones’ books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.’ – Emilia Clarke

‘I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it’s possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it’s a white man’s sport. Or we think that since other black people don’t play it, so why should I play it.’ – Mookie Betts

‘There has always been a saying in baseball that you can’t make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.’ – Ted Williams

‘When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it’s game over for everyone else.’ – Jason Day

‘Every defense’s game plan is to take me away.’ – A. J. Green

‘It’s a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can’t live with what everyone’s impression of what I should or what I shouldn’t do.’ – Michael Jordan

‘You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.’ – Mike Singletary

‘I may go so far as saying LeBron James may be the greatest player to ever play the game. Because he is so potent offensively that not only can he score at will, but he keeps everybody involved.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.’ – Casey Stengel

‘At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘I got all the confidence in the world in my game.’ – Ja Morant

‘Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.’ – Phil Jackson

‘After I strike out I say, ‘Hey, it’s just another game. It’s just another way to play baseball.” – Juan Soto

‘Someone like Shane Warne played the game on and off the field really well and got into guys’ heads. Even though he couldn’t bounce you and hurt you physically, he was verbally aggressive and would let you know he’d get you out. He made batsmen doubt themselves. I learned from players like him and made a point of incorporating it into my own game.’ – Dale Steyn

‘The more you back yourself, the more consistent you become in finishing the game.’ – Dinesh Karthik

‘New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘Respect the game on and off the field and if you do that, you’re going to have the respect among your peers.’ – Cody Bellinger

‘I remember I’d be sleeping in the airport at 5 o’clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.’ – Charles Barkley

‘Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things – blocking and tackling.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn’t given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.’ – Michael Vick

‘When you have guys who are accountable to themselves, accountable to making sure they improve each and every day on the practice field and in every game, which is what I think we have here, you’re going to get better. It’s just the natural process of it.’ – Jason Kelce

‘When I was a kid, Test was the form of the game everybody wanted to watch.’ – Brian Lara

‘It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.’ – Sachin Tendulkar

‘Tournament play demands patience to survive and win. Winning at cash games demands a whole other level of thought and deception. You need to reach into your bag of tricks and run the occasional big bluff to be a consistent cash game winner.’ – Daniel Negreanu

‘Roblox is less a game than a 3-D social platform where you and your friends can pretend to be in different places. You can pretend to be in a fashion show or that you’re trying to survive in a tornado or that you want to go work in a pizza restaurant, or that you’re a bird and survive by catching insects.’ – David Baszucki

‘Time and time again, the players constantly surprise you and often not do at all what you expect and completely muck up your preparation, and that’s kind of the beauty of the game. It wouldn’t be as fun to the DM if everything worked out exactly how you thought it would.’ – Matthew Mercer

‘I was just trying to play the game, having fun. It was a hobby for me at the time.’ – Muggsy Bogues

‘I would like to score goals in every game.’ – Son Heung-min

‘I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘I’m always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now on.’ – Neymar

‘I enjoy photography. It’s a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P’s and Q’s and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you’re driving along and see something and think, ‘that would be nice.” – Ken Griffey Jr.

‘I want to become one of the best players, so if you want to be one the best, you have to elevate all aspects of your game.’ – Giannis Antetokounmpo

‘It’s just Lord be with me… Winning and losing isn’t the most important thing. He’s not worried about the outcome of the game. He’s worried about how I reflect Him and how I’m pitching… I think every time you pitch and every time you go on the mound you have to understand that it’s for Him.’ – Clayton Kershaw

‘It’s football. The game hasn’t changed. There’s not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it’s our job to move the ball, to score points, and keep our defense off the field.’ – Josh Allen

‘People talk about games and loneliness – it’s a lonely activity. I didn’t understand that. ‘Gears of War’ was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn’t sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.’ – Tim Schafer

‘Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.’ – Wayne Gretzky

‘My kids are always like, ‘Why do people always want to take pictures with you?’ and I’m like, ‘Because I’m your Dada, and you’re my daughter. That’s why.’ It’s definitely mostly because of ‘Game of Thrones.” – Jason Momoa

‘If the number of easy games is increasing nowadays, I guess it is because difficulty is not related to interesting and worthwhile game elements in many games among players.’ – Hidetaka Miyazaki

‘My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don’t miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.’ – Pete Rose

‘I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn’t take any ability to hustle.’ – Wade Boggs

‘Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don’t think you can, you won’t.’ – Jerry West

‘I’ve got a record titled ‘Idols Become Rivals,’ and it’s basically me writing a letter to someone in the game that I looked up to damn near the most, and I hate what things have come to.’ – Rick Ross

‘I like ice hockey, but it’s a frustrating game to watch. It’s hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.’ – Andy Rooney

‘I feel like I’m one of those guys that can impact the game in any way.’ – Jordan Clarkson

‘If you ask me my opinion, if you’re a rapper in this game, you oughta have a license to be able to carry a weapon.’ – Pimp C

‘And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘I just love the feeling from the fans and when I’m walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.’ – David Ortiz

‘A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It’s a drawing; it’s a mechanical reality.’ – Marcel Duchamp

‘Football is a simple game. It is not difficult to play football: just pass the ball around.’ – Dimitar Berbatov

‘You know, I’m just 6’9″ and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.’ – LeBron James

‘It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Just focus on doing what you love to do and play your best game. Get your qualities out of the pitch, enjoy your game and don’t think about the other things.’ – Virgil van Dijk

‘When I came to the professional game and Leverkusen asked me what number I wanted to have, I asked them which numbers were free. When they said 29, I said I’d take it because of my brother.’ – Kai Havertz

‘If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want to read as much about it as you can, see it live and watch as many games as you can. If you’re the type who wants to be as involved as you can in the sport, you’re probably going to want to play ‘Madden NFL.” – John Madden

‘There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘Right after the game, say as little as possible.’ – Tom Landry

‘For me, every game is a pickup game in front of my house.’ – Nikola Jokic

‘I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘I’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.’ – Ice Cube

‘For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.’ – Stephen Curry

‘There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I’m sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.’ – Viswanathan Anand

‘I don’t think I was a fine game coach. I’m trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.’ – John Wooden

‘If you can do that – if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game – then you’re a good ballplayer.’ – Willie Mays

‘Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Unreal has to be an engine for everyone who wants to build a major game.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘Role-playing isn’t storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it’s not a game.’ – Gary Gygax

‘I love this game.’ – Patrick Mahomes

‘Heck yeah, I’d be comfortable coaching a game without any fans. If the choice were play in front of no fans or not play, then I would choose to play in front of no fans.’ – Jim Harbaugh

‘Songwriting’s a weird game.’ – Keith Richards

‘If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn’t mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.’ – Xabi Alonso

‘I don’t think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.’ – Rickey Henderson

‘The things I will gain from Modric and Kroos will be unbelievable. Their knowledge of the game, the way they play it. The experience will be so great for me.’ – Jude Bellingham

‘Although, at times, soccer is a challenge to mind, body, and spirit, fundamentally, the progression of the U.S. women’s game and those who play it reflects a distinctively American culture, rooted in our struggle, shared aspiration, hard work and self-determination.’ – Ali Krieger

‘I always loved the game, but when my legs weren’t hurting it was a lot easier to love.’ – Mickey Mantle

‘It’s not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.’ – Lionel Messi

‘Two of my boys are Manchester United fans; one is an Arsenal fan. Whenever there is a game I can take the boys to, I love taking them.’ – David Beckham

‘As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, ‘Just remember something. You don’t need to tell anybody how good you are. You show them how good you are.’ And he drove that home with me. So I learned early not to brag about how good I was or what I could do but let my game take that away and show them that I could play well enough.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘Isn’t cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.’ – Sachin Tendulkar

‘If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.’ – Casey Stengel

‘I have never seen a talent like Ronaldo. He always scores, scores, scores. The first game he played for Milan, Sienna away, I said to him, ‘I can’t put you on the pitch. You are 100kg.’ ‘Mister,’ he said, ‘don’t worry, I will score.’ I put him in, and he scored twice.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘I think Rohit Sharma is an awesome player in all varieties of the game.’ – Brian Lara

‘Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.’ – LeBron James

‘I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.’ – Conor McGregor

‘The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘I just come do what I’ve got to do, play my game. And I don’t worry if anybody likes it.’ – David Ortiz

‘When I was younger, I’d always forget stuff. I think there was probably 4-5 times where we’d drive 30 minutes to a town for the baseball tournament, and all of a sudden, I’d get to the field and look in my bag, and I didn’t have my cleats. So my dad had to race all the way home to get my cleats and get back before the game started so I could play.’ – Aaron Judge

‘Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.’ – Stephen Curry

‘I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.’ – John Wooden

”Fortnite’ has, I think, the most positive gamer community that’s ever emerged from a game at this scale. I think it’s partly because of the great community and partly because of the tone set by the game.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.’ – Michael Jordan