Mario Quotes

• I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.

  Mandy Moore

  Play, Waiting, My Best Friend

  "The E3 of The Hollywood". www.ign.com. October 11, 2001.

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• A Mario Brother never says 'can't', Luigi!

  Mario

  Brother

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• I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

  Dustin Diamond

  Boys, Littles, Knows

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• Like most celebrities, of course, I adore all the Mario games.

  Josie Maran

  Games, Adore, Courses

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• Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Running, Thinking, Games

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• What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Want, Next, Super Mario

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• I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Two, World

  Next Generation magazine, Volume 4 No. 46, October 1998.

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• When we were designing 'Mario Kart 64,' we wanted it to feel like the player is controlling an RC car. If you play this game and get this feeling, then we will be happy because we accomplished our goal.

  Hideki Konno

  Player, Mario Kart, Games

  Nintendo Power, Volume 92, January 1997.

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• Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Clothes, Looks, Metallic

  "Mario Mania Player's Guide". 1991.

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• Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.

  Hideo Kojima

  Bangs, Today, Digital

  Nintendo Power, November 2010.

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• The best players in the game want the responsibility of being the best player. The reality is the game has changed from now back to '87. It's a lot tighter checking. The players are better today. So, that makes it harder for him just in that fact. We can't rely solely on Mario [Lemieux] to carry this team. We're not relying on that.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Team, Responsibility, Player

  Source: www.hockeycanada.ca

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dog, Night, Giving

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• The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in love with a princess, right? Someone who faces every challenge in life with a cheerful Wahoo! In London a bike messenger stopped me and said ‘You’re the bloke who does Mario’ on an escalator. So naturally I go ‘Wahooooo’ all the way up the stairs.

  Charles Martinet

  Falling In Love, Princess, Voice

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• I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, League, Liverpool

  "Signing Mario Balotelli could be Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers' shrewdest move yet at Anfield" by Jim Boardman, www.mirror.co.uk. August 21, 2014.

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• The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

  Holland Cotter

  Past, Way, Cuban

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• My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Years, Numbers

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• Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

  Steve Albini

  Children, Drama, People

  "Indie Rock Food Blogs: The Steve Albini Interview". Interview with Andrew Simmons, www.laweekly.com. May 17, 2011.

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• We are sorry about [the E3] media briefings, specifically for those who were expecting to see Nintendo show something about ‘Super Mario’ or ‘Legend of Zelda.’

  Satoru Iwata

  Sorry, Media, Nintendo

  "Nintendo: We're Sorry, Hard-core Gamers" by Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. July 22, 2008.

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• If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.

  Dan Dierdorf

  Looks, Sculpture, Ends

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• I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

  Michael Symon

  Mentor, Lucky, World

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• Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Believe, Math

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• Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Art, Character, Life Is

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• After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Brain, Nintendo, Body

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• (On winning the 800 meters in front of the home fans) I was really excited to come back here. Of course you are always a little nervous because you never know how the race is going to unfold, plus it is the first one of the season as well. I was really excited to come out and perform today. I give special thanks to Mario Sategna and The University of Texas for all of their support.

  Leonel Manzano

  Home, Athlete, Winning

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• Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

  Patrick Roy

  Team, Hockey, Player

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