Tough 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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• This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• What's tough is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Sports, Game Day

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• I am not afraid of anybody.   This is a tough game.   You can't be intimidated.   You can't be frightened.   And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

  Maxine Waters

  Party, Games, Tea

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• Professional football's a tough game. It's a lot of contact. It's a lot of wear and tear on your body. You've got elite athletes running into each other, play after play, at high speeds. And this is something that I love and I enjoy.

  John Urschel

  Football, Running, Athlete

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Strong, Games, Quality

  "Big Think Interview with Anatoly Karpov". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. May 17, 2010.

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• These are tough games to play. We shared the puck and we wanted everyone to get a chance to score. Tough games to play in. We want close games. That is why we train so hard. We want to show our fans some even games.

  Caroline Ouellette

  Hockey, Games, Play

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• We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Games, Want

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• I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.

  Tim Hudson

  Games, Guy, Pitching

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• Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Hockey, Player

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• Hockey is a tough game.

  Bobby Orr

  Hockey, Games, Tough

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• We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it . . . and I'd hate to see it go.

  Ben Hannant

  Sports, Hate, Rugby League

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• Perk, from the minute you got here... I hated you before you got here... But the moment you got here, man, you just changed my whole perception of you. Just one of the best teammates I ever had. I just thank you so much. The late night calls after tough games, you texting me, telling me I'm the MVP. That means a lot to me, man. Thank you.

  Kevin Durant

  Mean, Night, Men

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• You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Winning, Games

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• We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.

  Barry Ferguson

  Football, Games, Today

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• I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

  Chase Utley

  Baseball, Games, Play

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• Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes.

  Rickson Gracie

  Sports, Heart, Fighting

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