Quotes About Game

cat-andmouse

You are far too well informed a man to pretend that you don't know what little game you are playing. If you have presentiments of death, it is because of certain wishes. You desire to escape sexual impotence - impotence, in short - and you wish for death to save you from all that. It is one of the virility's favorite ploys.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

At the ten-minute halftime, "with the figures standing 11 for Yale and 5 for Princeton, Mr. Clemens was one of the most eager of the mathematicians figuring how Princeton might yet pull the game out of the fire." Princeton didn't, but the reporter recorded the author's color commentary on the first pigskin game he'd ever seen. "I should think they'd break every bone they ever had!

Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.

I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball.

This student, in a brilliant flash, had hit upon the "secret of life." He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions—it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.

when you declare yourself an unwilling victim of a known risk, you have postured yourself as a poor loser in a game you chose to play.

There is no such thing as an isolated proposition. For what I call a proposition is a position in the game of language.

Das Spiel des Zweifelns selbst setzt schon die Gewißheit voraus.

ieri, pare che faceste all'altalena, e su, e giù, e io nel mezzo ad aggiustarmi e ad aggiustarvi a punto. Ah! avete creduto di giocarvi me, la mia vita? Avete fallito il colpo, cari miei! Io ho giocato voi.

Leone: Ah, Venanzi, it's a sad thing, when one has learnt every move in the game. Guido: What game? Leone: Why . . . this one. The whole game — of life. Guido: Have you learnt it? Leone: Yes, a long time ago

Ti compiango! Ma tu devi far la tua parte, com'io la mia. Il giuoco è questo. L'ha capito finanche lei! Ciascuno la sua, fino all'ultimo; e stai pur sicuro che dal mio perno io non mi muovo, avvenga che può. Mi vedo e vi vedo giocare, e mi diverto. Basta.

Broncos hockey game in southern Alberta, a team that played in the same Major Junior A league as the Vancouver Giants

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

Rarely has a new player on the game captured so much attention so fast.

I also found out why I should never reveal the why to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.

I also found out why i should never reveal why to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.

But what a superb game the three of us are playing. Who is the demon? Who is the liar? Who the human being? Who the cleverest? Who the strongest? Who loves the most? Are we three immense egos fighting for domination or for love, or are these things mixed?

We who play the game of life so desperately for temporal stakes might be playing at love with God for higher stakes—our selves, and his. We play against one another for possessions, who might be playing with the King who stakes his throne and what is his against our lives and all we are: a game in which the more is lost, the more is won.

And what did my mother think the Babysitters Club was, I wondered. A game?

throw-the-beanbag-in-the-Pilgrim's-mouth.

pin-the-feather-on-the-turkey

Take Me Out to the Ball Game.