Games Quotes
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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
A. A. Milne
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I've never been on the cover of a game. When people go into the store and see me on the cover of a game, maybe that will entice them to buy it.
Paul Pierce
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They came in and got into an offensive rhythm. Games like these aren't won or lost at the end against great teams. You can't let a team go on a run and expect to win.
Dan Monson
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Our constituents deserve better than narrow-minded political games.
Stephen Fincher
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You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.
Michael Ian Black
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I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.
Estelle Ramey
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Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.
Naomi Novik
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This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.
Terry Teachout
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You never want to lose three games in a row, let alone going into a break. Go into the break and rejuvenate and come back and be ready to go.
Eric Staal
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It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.
Emma Pooley
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Players win games, and coaches win players.
Bill Courtney
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I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.
Charlie Weis
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Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.
Viswanathan Anand
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Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.
Sara Shepard
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We're hanging in there, staying within two or three games of first place. That we're pretty close without Prior and Wood is a good sign.
Carlos Zambrano
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It was nice to see them play free. It was one of the better games I've seen in a long time.
C. Vivian Stringer
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She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.
Sarah Dessen
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Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.
Thomas Kuhn
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I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.
Bob Devaney
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We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions.
Sepp Blatter
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I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.
Seth Godin
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When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
Willie Stargell
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I always get up for every game, but this game is especially big. It's a do-or-die thing. This could be (decide) whoever wins the regular-season championship.
Rajon Rondo