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Quotes About Esports

As you start to see more respected advertisers coming in and looking at esports, you're going to find that there's a lot of interest.
~ Michael Morhaime
ESports is a big part of 'StarCraft II,' and I think it adds a lot of longevity to the game.
~ Michael Morhaime
I am not a friend of eSports. It's the same with professional wrestling - it's for booger eaters.
~ Colin Cowherd
While the Super Bowl still smashes records for butts in the seats, eSports often run longer and never blinks. There's no commercial break. There's no halftime show. From start to finish, someone is going to walk home a champion, and you don't want to miss a second of it.
~ Rob Manuel
People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well.
~ Jensen Huang
Looking ahead, we see the popularity of eSports exploding as competitive gaming becomes more mainstream and eSports leagues like 'Call of Duty' World League and Overwatch League driving greater engagement and viewership.
~ Bobby Kotick
Why should the televised stuff be only about pro gamers? For me it's more fascinating to see who's going to be the next god of gods than watching some pro gamer.
~ Peter Molyneux
This game is a profession now, it's not a hobby any more. You can earn great money and there are loads of people earning a living out of the game.
~ Rob Cross
Being a professional athlete, people respect the fact that I respect eSports professional gamers.
~ Gordon Hayward
The engineering, analytics, design, testing, and delivery behind our products offer some of the hardest engineering and business challenges in the world. As we've brought our franchises into eSports and moved to digital delivery, it's become even more complex and exciting - which, in turn, has allowed us attract even more top talent.
~ Bobby Kotick
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~ Roland Smith
Asia is the founding land of competitive gaming.
~ Michael Morhaime
One of the most popular games to watch on eSports is 'League of Legends,' a game that blends role-playing, managing resources and shouting at your friends. Again, if I had another thousand words, I might be able to scratch the surface of this game, but all you need to know is that gamers love to play it, and even more of them love to watch it.
~ Rob Manuel
We're thrilled to see eSports continue to grow in popularity around the world.
~ Michael Morhaime
We believe that there are a number of Nintendo titles that could do exceptionally well in the competitive play space.
~ Reggie Fils-Aime
I was on a competitive 'Halo' team, and we would enter tournaments for money.
~ Gordon Hayward
There are some smart people here in Boston. We're a sports city here and everybody loves competition. Esports is another outlet for that.
~ Gordon Hayward
One thing we wanted to take from traditional sports with 'Overwatch League' - we have city-based teams. There aren't really any other models where you have a global city-based league. But you do have teams that are based in a location.
~ Michael Morhaime
When we started Twitch I didn't start off as a huge eSports fan, but I am now.
~ Justin Kan
As a spectator eSport, I think 'StarCraft' is really exciting, engaging, and interesting to watch. As a player, it just really has something for everybody.
~ Michael Morhaime
I get asked constantly, what's Nintendo's approach to the esports community. And our approach is we want to enable consistent standards. We want to enable an approach to the competition that's fair, that's balanced, that enables the players to showcase their skills.
~ Reggie Fils-Aime
Live streaming has been huge in eSports.
~ Michael Morhaime
I happen to believe that video games will be the largest sport and entertainment in the world. The reason for that is a video game can be every sport. You can be anybody.
~ Jensen Huang
To allow our audiences to watch more professionally produced video content, we acquired Major League Gaming - MLG - and we expect MLG to become the 'ESPN of Videogames' with a focus on the celebration of gamers, both amateur and professionals.
~ Bobby Kotick