John Wooden Quotes
You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.
Quotes to Explore
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The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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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.
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I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
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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.
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I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since.
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When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
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On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.
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The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
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I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.
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Applied properly, it logic can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.
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You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.
