Quotes on Games

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

There's no way you can look into the game of _x000D_ life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether _x000D_ it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!

Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.

I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.

If _x000D_ you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if _x000D_ you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the _x000D_ object is going to do, and that's not our game.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'