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Quotes About Game

And—maybe it's ridiculous to go on in this vein, although it doesn't matter since no one's ever going to see this—but does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end—and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?
~ Donna Tartt
there are four large screens on the scoreboard showing the score, replays of the game and fan participation. Throughout the game, the video screens showed highlights of games played in the past as well.
~ Jack Canfield
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
He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar
~ Jack Nicklaus
This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Take me out to the ball game,Take me out with the crowd.Buy me some peanuts and cracker-jack—I don't care if I never get back.
~ Unknown
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
~ Jackie Robinson
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams
~ Jacques Barzun
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
~ Unknown
An adaptive agent is constantly playing a game with its environment. What exactly does that mean? Distilled to the essence, what actually has to happen for game-playing agents to survive and prosper? Two things, Holland decided: prediction and feedback.
~ Unknown
In outline, it is easy to see how a spatial game could work along the same lines as the cellular automata. The game players are arranged on a chessboardlike array (it can be in three dimensions, of course, or even more). During each round, the player on a given square plays the game with its neighbors. After this, each square is occupied by its original owner or by one of the eight neighbors, depending on who won that round—in other words, who got the biggest payoff.
~ Unknown
Daphne, whatever you could think of in your wildest imagination, there is a game for it and probably has been for a thousand years.' He pulled off his shirt and advanced on her. 'For example, there is the lovely lady taken up against the wall game. I'll show you how it is played.
~ Madeline Hunter
My ambivalence, of course, only encouraged him. Any challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure. If I had loved him, he would have been gone, yet my revulsion brought him back and back. He
~ Madeline Miller
If caught, he would feel fury and indignation at the game ending too soon.
~ John D. MacDonald
suppose that in America everything, including education and corrections, is fair game for profiteers.
~ John Grisham
were in town. At dawn, NBC, along with the rest of the baseball world, awakened to the irresistible story of Joe Castle and his stunning debut in Philadelphia. Suddenly the biggest game of the day was
~ John Grisham
everything, including education and corrections, is fair game for profiteers.
~ John Grisham
Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.
~ John Grisham
The Guises had played their poker game and lost.
~ John Guy
Football's the kind of game where, if your team's doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually enjoy looking forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theater of emotions, not dreams.
~ John Lydon
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
~ Eric Temple Bell
I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
~ David Cage
In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
~ George Orwell