282 Quotes on Games

• Strategy that wears a scarf of play teaches us to juggle uncertainty and create delight from chaos.

  Author: Marina Weiss

• -play pushes boundaries and transforms clashing minds into cracking alibis for expanding possibilities.

  Author: Zara Delane

• We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.

  Author: Jack Youngblood

• You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

  Author: Dick York

• The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

  Author: Will Wright

• The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

  Author: Will Wright

• Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

  Author: Will Wright

• What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

  Author: Mike Wilson

• Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it.

  Author: Mike Wilson

• KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.

  Author: Mike Wilson

• Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

  Author: Dontrelle Willis

• The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.

  Author: Jason Williams

• Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

  Author: George Will

• Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

  Author: Larry Wilcox

• Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.

  Author: Michael Wilbon

• When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

  Author: Lisa Whelchel

• Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.

  Author: Randy West

• Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.

  Author: David Wells

• All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.

  Author: Margaret Weis

• At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I just want to fit in and win games for my team.

  Author: Chris Webber

• I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

  Author: Earl Weaver

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  Author: Earl Weaver

• No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

  Author: Jim Valvano

• Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

  Author: Bob Uecker

• Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.

  Author: John Turturro

• Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.

  Author: Carrot Top

• The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• The more games I will play, the faster I will be back on a top spot in the world rankings.

  Author: Jan Timman

• Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

  Author: John Thorn

• In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week.

  Author: Joe Tex

• There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

  Author: Lawrence Taylor

• Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.

  Author: Lawrence Taylor

• South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

  Author: Kim sung

• With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

  Author: Michael Strahan

• They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• Most games are lost, not won.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• Most ball games are lost, not won.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

  Author: Howard Staunton

• I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

  Author: John Starks

• I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.

  Author: Latrell Sprewell

• The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  Author: Warren Spahn

• I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

  Author: Duke Snider

• I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

  Author: Christian Slater

• I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

  Author: Christian Slater

• I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.

  Author: Christian Slater

• It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

  Author: Christian Slater

• I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.

  Author: Sarah Silverman

• In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

  Author: Joe Shuster

• I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.

  Author: Juan Samaranch

• Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.

  Author: Stan Sakai

• I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

  Author: Babe Ruth

• Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

  Author: Darrell Royal

• The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

  Author: Pete Rose

• I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

  Author: John Romero

• There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

  Author: John Romero

• I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

  Author: John Romero

• The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.

  Author: Claudio Reyna

• You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

  Author: Mary Retton

• I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

  Author: Pee Reese

• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Author: Dan Rather

• We can't worry about who we don't have. We have to go into these games with the guys we have.

  Author: Terry Porter

• Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

  Author: Alessandro Piero

• Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

  Author: Alessandro Piero

• We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.

  Author: Deval Patrick

• Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

  Author: Michel Patini

• No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

  Author: Bill Parcells

• I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

• We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

• After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

  Author: Merlin Olsen

• I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

  Author: Merlin Olsen

• I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

  Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

• We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

  Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

• More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

  Author: Alex Noble

• I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games.

  Author: Ray Nitschke

• I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

  Author: Ray Nitschke

• That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it.

  Author: Ray Nitschke

• Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

  Author: Olivia Newton-John

• If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.

  Author: Graham Nelson

• By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

  Author: Graham Nelson

• I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

  Author: Steve Nash

• And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

  Author: Parminder Nagra

• When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.

  Author: Eddie Murray

• Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

  Author: Marc Morial

• Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

  Author: Cleo Moore

• If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

  Author: Bobby Moore

• My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played.

  Author: Helen Moody

• It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

  Author: Thelonious Monk

• The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.

  Author: Isaac Mizrahi

• Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.

  Author: Shigeru Miyamoto

• This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.

  Author: Ruth Minner

• There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.

  Author: Sid Meier

• I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me.

  Author: Sid Meier

• I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

  Author: Sid Meier

• I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

  Author: Sid Meier

• Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

  Author: Sid Meier

• Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

  Author: Sid Meier

• When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

  Author: Willie Mays

• Most one run games are lost, not won.

  Author: Gene Mauch

• I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

  Author: Pedro Martinez

• I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

  Author: Penny Marshall

• The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.

  Author: Russell Mark

• Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.

  Author: Cindy Margolis

• Like most celebrities, of course, I adore all the Mario games.

  Author: Josie Maran

• Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

  Author: Mickey Mantle

• I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

  Author: Mako

• I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

  Author: Margaret Mahy

• The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.

  Author: Greg Maddux

• So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

  Author: Robert Lynd

• The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

  Author: Greg Louganis

• I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

  Author: Eva Longoria

• I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.

  Author: Jonah Lomu

• If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

  Author: Michael Lewis

• I hope we can build our offense and go out there and win games.

  Author: Jamal Lewis

• The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

  Author: Mario Lemieux

• Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

  Author: Bill Lee

• I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

  Author: Jennifer Lawrence

• 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.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.

  Author: Steve Largent

• All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

  Author: Meyer Lansky

• That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

  Author: Mike Krzyzewski

• That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

  Author: Mike Krzyzewski

• At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.

  Author: Vladimir Kramnik

• And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

  Author: Olga Korbut

• And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

  Author: Olga Korbut

• And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

  Author: Olga Korbut

• And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

  Author: Olga Korbut

• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  Author: Olga Korbut

• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  Author: Olga Korbut

• We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.

  Author: Herb Kohl

• Football players win football games.

  Author: Chuck Knox

• Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.

  Author: Solange Knowles

• I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

  Author: Heidi Klum

• There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

  Author: Bill Klem

• Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.

  Author: Jason Kidd

• I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

  Author: Garry Kasparov

• No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

  Author: Anatoly Karpov

• As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.

  Author: Al Kaline

• Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Author: Michael Jordan

• I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

  Author: Marion Jones

• People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

  Author: Lynn Johnston

• If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

  Author: Derek Jeter

• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

  Author: Eugene Jarvis

• Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

  Author: Jim Jarmusch

• I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

  Author: LeBron James

• Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

  Author: Isabelle Huppert

• The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.

  Author: John Hume

• I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

  Author: Ben Hogan

• There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

  Author: Ben Hogan

• Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

  Author: Faith Hill

• It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

  Author: James Hetfield

• I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

  Author: George Herman

• Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

  Author: Keith Henson

• The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

  Author: John Hench

• What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

  Author: John Harsanyi

• We have to try and not let the little things go by. It's the little things that win games. It's the little things that often get overlooked that can add two or three more wins.

  Author: Kenny Harrison

• I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

  Author: Neil Harris

• I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

  Author: Scott Hamilton

• Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

  Author: Scott Hamilton

• If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

  Author: Daniel Greenberg

• It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city.

  Author: Curt Gowdy

• You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

  Author: Nikki Giovanni

• I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.

  Author: Mary Garden

• All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

  Author: Indira Gandhi

• I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

  Author: David Gallagher

• I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

  Author: Hayden Fry

• Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?

  Author: Frederick Frieseke

• I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic.

  Author: Will Friedle

• Games lubricate the body and the mind.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

  Author: Alan Foster

• Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

  Author: Whitey Ford

• With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

  Author: Harrison Ford

• I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.

  Author: Phil Foglio

• Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

  Author: Dario Fo

• Predators will look for any way to talk to children online whether through sites like Myspace, instant messaging, or even online games.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

• The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them "outside" of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

  Author: Raymond Feist

• The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

  Author: Lorrie Fair

• Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

  Author: Jim Evans

• Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.

  Author: Daniel Evans

• To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

  Author: Julius Erving

• I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

  Author: David Ellis

• It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

  Author: Herb Elliott

• When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

  Author: Dennis Eckersley

• I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

  Author: Dick Ebersol

• This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

  Author: Placido Domingo

• The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

  Author: Thomas Dolby

• It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

  Author: Cory Doctorow

• The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

  Author: Vin Diesel

• I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

  Author: Dizzy Dean

• I like poems that are little games.

  Author: Peter Davison

• I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine.

  Author: Fred Davis

• It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

  Author: Antonio Davis

• A season is a season, regardless of the number of games.

  Author: Joe Cronin

• The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.

  Author: David Crane

• Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

  Author: Pierre Coubertin

• The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

  Author: Pierre Coubertin

• The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

  Author: Pierre Coubertin

• The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

  Author: Pierre Coubertin

• The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

  Author: Pierre Coubertin

• Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

  Author: Don Cooper

• Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.

  Author: Jim Cole

• The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

  Author: Sebastian Coe

• Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

  Author: Sebastian Coe

• Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

  Author: Brian Clough

• I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.

  Author: Roger Clemens

• It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

  Author: John Cleese

• I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

  Author: Steven Chu

• Some people think its just fun and games and others don't know how much I pushed to get here. They have to be in my shoes, but by listening to my music they can find out.

  Author: Chingy

• I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.

  Author: Brandi Chastain

• I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

  Author: Brandi Chastain

• I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

  Author: Wilt Chamberlain

• Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

  Author: Steve Case

• I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

  Author: Vince Carter

• The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

  Author: John Carmack

• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  Author: Harry Caray

• This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

  Author: William Burroughs

• Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

  Author: Bill Budge

• If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Author: Paul Bryant

• There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

  Author: Kobe Bryant

• Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

  Author: Bear Bryant

• For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

  Author: Avery Brundage

• The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

  Author: Avery Brundage

• Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

  Author: Inge Bruijn

• My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

  Author: Jonathan Brown

• The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

  Author: Scott Brooks

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  Author: Ed Bradley

• Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

  Author: Eddie Bracken

• Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way.

  Author: Peter Bondra

• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

  Author: Erma Bombeck

• I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

  Author: Uwe Boll

• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  Author: Uwe Boll

• A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.

  Author: Andrew Bogut

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  Author: Vida Blue

• For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games.

  Author: Rod Blagojevich

• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

  Author: Eric Berne

• My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

  Author: Dennis Bergkamp

• I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.

  Author: Julie Benz

• 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.

  Author: Richard Bennett

• I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

  Author: Ed Belfour

• My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

  Author: Ed Belfour

• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  Author: Dave Barry

• Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

  Author: Charles Barkley

• There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

  Author: Maurice Baring

• I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

  Author: Roger Bannister

• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

  Author: W. Auden

• If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

  Author: Mackenzie Astin

• I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.

  Author: Darren Aronofsky

• I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.

  Author: Alexis Arguello

• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  Author: Namie Amuro

• But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

  Author: Marcus Allen

• I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.

  Author: Marcus Allen

• Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

  Author: J Allard

• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Author: Hank Aaron

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