Raph Koster (Raphael "Raph" Koster) Quotes

The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

Raph Koster

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• When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Different
  • Women
  • She

• I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Up
  • Work
  • Player

• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Player
  • Same

• I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Like
  • Always

• If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Good
  • Great
  • Best

• For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Star

• 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
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• I've played pretty much every single-player RPG there is, has been, ever will be. But as far as the MMOs go, especially with the voice chat, it becomes like hanging out with your friends in a chat channel, and you're playing at the same time. So it becomes a lot more social than people would probably think.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Football
  • Player
  • Football Player

• I've been on my grind to be the best player I can.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Best
  • Player
  • I Can

• I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Games

• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Player

• Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Moments
  • Games
  • Everest

• School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Music
  • Player
  • Piano

• I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Wife
  • Player
  • Claim

• Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • Life
  • Football
  • Player

• He's been a top player for the last 10 years, and we all work on our swings, we all change things. We keep working and then we're trying to get better, and sometimes you get worse trying to get better. You've just got to give it some time, be patient for it to turn around, and when it does turn around, you feel like you can start winning again.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Change
  • Player
  • Winning

• And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils

  

  Jay-Z
  • Evil

• If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • Age
  • Childhood

• I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Age

• The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

  

  Raph Koster
  • Player
  • Games
  • Strange