Games Quotes
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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.
Richard Rodney Bennett
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You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.
Nomar Garciaparra
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Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
Chico Resch
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Those five members of the Supreme Court found a nonsensical distinction; that doesn't mean that Florida state legislators or state supreme court judges are required to play the semantic games that Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia did to reach the result they desired.
Barry W. Lynn
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Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
Art Spander
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That's something that's really important for us because I do feel that we'll have a lot of games this year that will come down to the fourth quarter. And how well you take care of the ball and how well you run it will make the difference.
Bobby Petrino
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This is one of those games you want when you're going out on the road. That's why in the third quarter, I was proud of the guys. ... I brought the guys together and reminded them of how we've let teams get back in games in the third quarter. I just said let's finish this one.
Eddie Charles Jones
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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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It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
Michel Platini
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The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS.
Tony Verna
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We have to get some shots to go in. We haven't shot 40 percent yet in five league games. That's pretty difficult to weather.
Dan Monson
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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
Catherynne M. Valente
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For the most part we weren't even in some of the games we lost.
Eddy Curry
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We've completed what we consider a very challenging and demanding schedule, ... With the games we have set up during the non-conference portion of our schedule, we feel it gives our players an opportunity to gain valuable experience before facing the rugged Big 12 Conference.
Eddie Sutton
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Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.
Sam Peckinpah
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It would have been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.
Scottie Pippen
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Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.
Nevil Shute
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I use Secret... I'm always powder-fresh during the games.
DeAndre Jordan
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Every game, you will have a decided schematic advantage.
Charlie Weis
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As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
Rick Larsen
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I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back door but I'm working everyday to exit through the main door!
Benjamin Boukpeti
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I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all.
Chase Utley
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I'd rather miss one or two games than to come back and pop it and miss four or five.
Darren McFadden