Games Quotes - Page 3

• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Intelligent, Sharks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  World, Olympics, Nations

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• Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Mean, Hands, Olympic Spirit

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• The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Athlete, Olympic Spirit, Olympics

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  Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Rain

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Baseball, Football, Taken

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.30, Best Books on

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• I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

  Scotty Bowman

  Sports, Hockey, Winning

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• I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Kids, Eye

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• There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Competition, Olympics

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• We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.

  John F. Kerry

  Battle, Shells, Matter

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• Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Video, Waste

  "Ray Bradbury Is on Fire!". Interview with James Hibberd, www.salon.com. August 29, 2001.

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• That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Winning, Nfl

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• It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

  Suzanne Collins

  Life, Fall, I Hate You

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.

  e. e. cummings

  Heart, Player, Men

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• The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
  The brooks for the fishers of song;
  To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
  The streams and the woods belong.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Song, Nature

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• Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

  Dr. Seuss

  Lonely, Fun, Winning

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine.

  Phil Ivey

  Casinos, Way, Chips

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• If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Sports, Block, Player

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• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

  Carl Orff

  Education, Children, Learning

  "Langley Schools Music Project Innocence and Despair" by Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. January 6, 2002.

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• You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

  Chris McCormack

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.

  Virginia Axline

  Children, Heart, Play

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• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sarcastic, Sports, Football

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• Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Humor, Kissing, Hunger For Love

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.248, Scholastic Inc.

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• I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Believe, Alive

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman. Chapter 13, 2001.

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