Games Quotes
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No doubt about it, this is what I came here for. I knew we were going to win a lot of football games this year. I thought I would cry (after the final gun), but I don't know how to act. It really hasn't hit me yet. It's been a long time since I felt like this.
Corey Dillon
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Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.
Stefan Edberg
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
Plato
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I think it would have been good if we could have played all pre-season games together. It will be something we'll have to deal with, something we'll have to fight through.
Allen Iverson
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We had to go on the road and dig some games out. In certain areas, we gave ourselves an opportunity. But the bottom line is the area that we said we had to control to win we didn't. That was taking away the three from them.
Dan Monson
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I never go easy on kids when I play board games. The sooner they learn what the consequence of entering a competition is, the better. If they win, I punch them in the face like any adult.
Zach Braff
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Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.
Anderson Cooper
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By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.
Chris Boardman
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I want to play football. I'm not just here to pick up my salary and do nothing. I'm young, I'm still 23 and still have a very long career, and I want to play games.
Luke Shaw
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The bottom line is that Thomas came up with some good saves. It's a tough loss, but there's still plenty of games left. At the same time, games like this can come back to haunt you in the end.
Bob Hartley
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When you win, you feel good about yourselves. That's what the focus is going to be on these next couple games.
Alain Vigneault
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Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.
A. J. Liebling
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And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.
Ian Fleming
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
Willie Mays
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A lot of children find symbolic arithmetic quite difficult and tedious, yet the children loved our tasks. They were games, the children were very happy to play them, and they were also they were good at them.
Elizabeth Spelke
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Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment for me due to the context, but I quickly accepted the result as evidence of what my preparation has been the past 3 years.
Benjamin Boukpeti
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We played about as well as we played all season. They had back-to-back games like we did, but you could see their legs getting tired. I had a suspicion that we could win this game tonight, but they played above my expectations.
Phil Jackson
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For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!
Cathy Freeman
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These guys don't have all the physical ability but they are able to win basketball games because they play the right way.
Allen Iverson
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This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
Abhinav Bindra
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
William Cowper
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I think everybody was thinking about that -- we've lost a lot of games at the end of the games. I think sometimes we have pressure in the last five minutes, and today it happened, too. But we need to work with that because we always have pressure.
Andres Nocioni
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I have never played a game in my life.
Kevin Spacey