Quotes About Miyamoto

I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.

I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in 'Metal Gear Solid 3.' But you cannot eat turtles.

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

That attitude was consistent with the teachings of Miyamoto Musashi, the renowned samurai swordsman of the sixteenth century. "As far as attacks made on you are concerned," Musashi had advised, "let opponents go ahead and do anything useless, while stopping them from doing anything useful. This is essential to the art of war.

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.