Games Quotes - Page 23

• I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.

  Lou Gehrig

  Baseball, Real, Play

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• The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

  Terence

  Determination, Men, Skills

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• Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

  Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

  Golf, Sportsmanship, Reputation

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• Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Golf, Play, People

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• Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Men, Coaching

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• I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, School

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• Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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  Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Beautiful, Player

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin

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• This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Hockey, Leafs, Maple

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• What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

  Kevin Kelly

  Motivation, Inspiration, Winning

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• It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Sports, Silly, Playing Games

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• Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

  Samuel Butler

  Loyalty, Army, Winning

  Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Samuel Butler”, p.11

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• No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

  Tom Watson

  Sports, Golf, Squash

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• Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

  Thomas Hardy

  Children, Views, Play

  Notebook, 1 Jan. 1902

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• I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Player, Practice

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.240, Penguin

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• Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.

  Sai Baba

  Life, Dream, Song

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• I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.

  Mike Carey

  Revenge, Mean, Thinking

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• The best feeling is watching a real football game, because the games they show in the movies aren't real.

  John Madden

  Funny, Football, Real

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• I think the Americans don't understand that this is a complicated new ball game. People everywhere have seen that a few determined people who were not scared to die can create a huge upheaval within a major superpower.

  Imran Khan

  Thinking, People, Balls

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• After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Typewriters, Talking

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.

  Nigel Short

  Children, Powerful, Essence

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• Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

  Voltaire

  Honor, Chess, Wit

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• Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

  Nigel Short

  Chess Game, Too Much, Pawns

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• You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

  John Madden

  Funny, Winning, Nfl

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• Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game.

  John Madden

  Balls, Likes, Rainy

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