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Quotes About Game

One of the things that upset me a lot, and I'm pretty open about it is people that challenge my character or challenge my commitment to my job or the game that I play.
~ P.K. Subban
In T20, even when you are sticking with the same processes you can just as easily go for 40 or 50 runs in your four overs as take two for 20. In those situations, you are bound to be upset even when the game is over but it is OK to feel you should have done better. It's such an unpredictable game.
~ Jofra Archer
Hey, I learned early the game of football is just that, a game, and you can't get too uptight. If things get too terrible, you can always go out and get another job somewheres else.
~ Cris Collinsworth
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.
~ David Grann
A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.
~ Donna Marie Timney
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
~ Jack Nicklaus
The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
~ Emanuel Lasker
Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
~ Willie Stargell
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
~ Bob Hope
Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.
~ Jane McGonigal
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
~ Alan Lewis
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
~ Hank Aaron
It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
~ Willie Stargell
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
~ Ben Hecht
It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.
~ Frank Gifford
I'm not a Steve Nash or a Magic Johnson who is going to come out and throw 15 assists and do all these crazy passes, that is not me and it's not my game.
~ Patty Mills
If you have a big crowd for a derby game where passions run high, you dont ask inexperienced stewards to keep an eye on them for pocket money. You need to employ professionals and pay them the going rate.
~ Robbie Savage
Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.
~ Stan Mikita
It comes with experience and learning and knowing the game. It's not necessarily about sticking your chest out and saying, 'I'm tough.'
~ Matt Barnes
'Dungeons and Dragons' has evolved over the years, and so has the community that played the game. It had a lot of lingering stigma from the anti-'D&D' movement of the '70s and '80s - this kind of idea that 'Dungeons and Dragons' is only played by the lowest of the low basement dwellers - that has kept people from being comfortable talking about it.
~ Matthew Mercer
Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
~ J. J. Watt