Quotes About Game

No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don't measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter's eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game.

In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.

If we manage to cheat death, we'll give death another sporting chance.

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

Think of them as insurance against the weaknesses of human nature—your weaknesses, my weaknesses, our weaknesses: 1. Make it conscious. 2. Make it a game. 3. Make it competitive. 4. Make it small and temporary.

Creativity operates differently. You work hard because you're inspired to, not because you have to. Work becomes fun, and you have energy for days because this life is not a "young man's game." It is an "inspired person's game." The keys belong to whoever is inspired, and no specific age, sex, gender, or cultural background has a monopoly on inspiration.

The man who runs naked across a football field certainly disrupts, but he does not change the rules of the game. The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess. —

I too often took golf's capriciousness as its most maddening vice, but if I adjusted my stance and looked from another angle, its fickleness was the game's greatest gift.

The land on which this game is played holds memories for a very long time, and once in a while, it lets us come back and walk around in them.

The rules of the game really have given the offense an advantage, especially with pass interference.

One game, one of the kids yelled, 'The only thing Riverses are good at is coaching.' I didn't take offense, I just smiled.

The reality is that it's just the nature of the game. It's the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can't take that out of the game.

LeBron is more of a facilitator. Kawhi is probably more an attacking offensive dissecting the defense type of player... They're both very good defenders when they turn it on. They can impact the game on both ends of the floor.

James Harden is one of the best offensive players in the game.

I still have a lot of confidence in my offensive game. I try to get guys involved and get in the lane, but defense is my backbone.

The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.

What Scientology offers is a bigger game. You're part of an elite group saving the planet.

There's a lot of opportunity for game developers to show value to people, things they want to spend money on. I think offers are just another kind of ads.

I'm an NBA basketball coach. I'm not an official, and I'm not trying to be an official.

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

As far as being on the officials every five minutes, it's just not good for the game. The officials don't like it; you embarrass them, so it's just not good. Now, every now and then they might make a bad call, but officiating is hard.

Oliver Kahn against Valencia in 2001 - this was the first Champions League game I remember. I was a Bayern fan.

I actually do quite well in Omaha. It's one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold 'em.

I respect the game, on and off the field.