Game Quotes
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Capablanca wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
Bobby Fischer
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We had some great individual performances but one of the things we learnt from the English is how to put a game together. They played as a team for the whole five days all series...
Brian Lara
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I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.
Gary Bettman
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I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.
Alan Hansen
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To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.
Enos Slaughter
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
Fernando Botero
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It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.
Elvis Costello
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Class is more important than a game.
Pat Summitt
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.
Urban Meyer
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We wanted to win the game. I don't care about the 8-and-8. I wanted to take care of business and we did not do that.
Andy Reid
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I had gone through game, after game, after game, first being a professor at Harvard, then being a psychedelic spokesman, and still people were constantly looking into my eyes, like 'Do you know?' Just that subtle little look, and I was constantly looking into their eyes 'Do you know?'
Ram Dass
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
Carly Fiorina
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
H. G. Bissinger
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When the game is over it is really just beginning.
Jerry Kramer
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Ooo la la la laI did you wrong; my heart went out to play.But in the game I lost you.What a price to pay, hey I'm crying.Ooo baby baby.Ooo baby baby.
Smokey Robinson
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I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.
Wayne Rooney
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I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Edmund White
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I'm probably the guy who keeps it loose around the room and tries to joke around with guys before the game, keeping things funny.
Patrick Kane
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You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
Pierce Brosnan
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The best poker game is seven-card stud, high-low splits. I mean, it's the best if you don't have to declare high or low, and can win it all with a low straight.
Bobby Riggs
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I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That's how I look at things. I feel like if you just continue to take care of your body, working out, making sure you're in shape and you stay on top of your game, you can play as long as you want.
Adrian Peterson
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
Xavier Becerra