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Game On Quotes

One play can determine the course of a game. One play can change your momentum forever.
- Sherman Alexie

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, 'Uh oh, they're going to find out now. I've run a game on everybody and they're going to find me out.
- Maya Angelou

I would traverse not once more, but often the hell of my inner being. One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
- Hermann Hesse

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
- Lance Armstrong

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
- Mackenzie Astin

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
- Wade Boggs

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
- Mikhail Botvinnik

They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.
- Kami Garcia

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.
- Brandi Chastain

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.
- Eric Davis

So Fnick, can I change channel?" Iggy asked. "There's a game on."
"Make yourself at home, Figgy." Fang said.
- James Patterson

You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at will be our winner." "I've played that game once before. Ended up--" Paris shuddered. "Never mind. It's not good to wander down that particular memory trail. So no. Just no.
- Gena Showalter

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
- Seth Godin

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
- Jasmine Guy

The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.
- Eugene Jarvis

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.
- Jerry Seinfeld

Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.
- Sebastian Junger

I went to a football game once and got punched in the face, but you couldn't tell because I was already sitting in the nosebleed section.
- Jarod Kintz

What is life without death? That's like asking what is peanut butter without jelly? Or a baseball game on TV and changing the channel? Or government without taxes? Actually, I like those last two.
- Jarod Kintz

Algernon is a pleasant companion. At mealtimes, he takes his place at the small gateleg table. He likes pretzels, and today he took a sip of beer while we watched the ballgame on TV. I think he rooted for the Yankees.
- Daniel Keyes

I tapped around on my new Miracle Phonea gift from Josephas I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn't trying to be rude, but I'd recently become addicted to this one game on my Miracle Phone. Really, I was listening. I could multitask like no other. Trust me, there's an app for that.
- Laura Kreitzer

To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.
- Mark Lawrenson

She looked like a character from a video game. One of those improbably busty, impossibly well-armed superchicks who could do acrobatics and hit the kill zone even while firing guns from both hands during a cartwheel.
"You look fucking ridiculous," she told herself.
- Jonathan Maberry

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
- Jose Mourinho

There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world.
- Walter Dean Myers

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
- Oscar Robertson

I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.
- Emmitt Smith

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.
- Willie Stargell

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
- Casey Stengel

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
- Fran Tarkenton

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.
- David Wells

I only dunked maybe twice a game on average.
- Dominique Wilkins

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