Games Quotes

• Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

  Mike Singletary

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

  Louis Sachar

  Morning, Writing, Years

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• Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 17, 2017

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• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

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• You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

  Chris Evert

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Fun

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• Life is more fun if you play games.

  Roald Dahl

  Fun, Playing Games, Life Is

  Roald Dahl (2012). “My Uncle Oswald”, p.128, Penguin

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• My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Life Is, Life Is A Game, Poetry Is

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• Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

  Terry Brooks

  Play, Deception

  Terry Brooks (2009). “The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1: Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD! - The Black Unicorn - Wizard at Large”, p.349, Del Rey

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• Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you.

  Adolf Hitler

  Player, Life Is Like, Ifs

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• What doesn't kill you makes you smaller

  Mario

  Funny, Humorous, Character

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• Games lubricate the body and the mind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sports, Educational, Mind

  "Edge-Tools of Speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou (p. 177), 1899.

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• One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Life, Player, Long

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Hurt, Dating

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

  Eric Berne

  Gambling, Compromise, Intimacy

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• If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

  Milan Kundera

  Laughter, Echoes, Choices

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• Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

  J. D. Salinger

  Success, Boys, Play

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

  Suzanne Collins

  Movie, Odds, President Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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• Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Dan Rather

  Country, Grandmother, Playing Games

  Dan Rather (1995). “The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist”, Hearst Books

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• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.151, Open Road Media

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