Quotes About Gamesmanship

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

How you harangue referees. How you fall over when you've not been touched. How you make a meal out of every tackle to try and get the other player booked. How you protest when you have nothing to fucking protest about –

On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead.

Everybody talks smack during games.

If you're really ahead of the game, plagiarism is a trap you want your competitors to fall into!

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

As you can see, the words fair play are not in my vocabulary. Well, they are in my vocabulary, but only to say that they aren't.

I don't get wrapped up in the politics of going down to win a penalty or getting an opponent sent off.

Say I was playing like a big receiver at whatever school, I would look up his Instagram and see his girlfriend and I'd probably go slide in her DMs. Before the game. You know we get to the game, he probably know about it, maybe he don't. But either he know about it or he don't, but either way I'm bringing it up in the game.

I don't really do it on the field, but off the field, I use it to my advantage. I'll talk a lot of smack.

I've been telling people I need to start smiling to my opponents and shaking hands and just being nice, so then when the bell rings, I catch them off-guard, because I used to catch people off-guard, but everyone's ready now.

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

There is never a point in showing your hand before you have to; that is just a way to ensure giving the game away.

Stealing someone's signals was a part of the game and everybody attempted to do that. We had people that always tried to steal signals.

I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.

There are several advanced classes in the university of liars. Golfers and fishermen rank very high in the sporting grades

Everybody in the league has someone up in the box, or guys on the sidelines trying to steal calls. It's just like baseball. If you've got guys who can do, you do it.

If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.