Quotes on Games

Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception.

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

Coaches win practices, players win games

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

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

The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now.

Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.

What's really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180......as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting motorcycles...the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall.

Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.

When I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.