The Game Quotes

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
- Kareem Abduljabbar

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
- Kareem Abduljabbar

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.
- Kareem Abduljabbar

He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.
- J R R Tolkien

The future toyed with us, it was up to us to try to enjoy the game. But not everyone liked the game or they weren't given the tools to play.
- Carrie Adams

Cause there was a side to you that I never knew, never knew
All the things you'd say they were never true, never true,
And all the games you played you would alway win, always win.
But I set fire to the rain!
- Adele

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.
- Theodor Adorno

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.
- Freddy Adu

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.
- Freddy Adu

Whilst men may play the game, women know the score.
- Habeeb Akande

Female players lose sight of the game.
- Habeeb Akande

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.
- Paulo Coelho

The Gods throw the dice,and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.They don't care if when you go,you leave behind a lover,a home, a career or a dream.The Gods don't care whether you have it all,whether your every desire can be met through hardwork and persistence.The Gods don't want to know about your plans and hopes.Somewhere they're throwing the dice and you get chosen.From then on,winning and losing is only a question of luck.
- Paulo Coelho

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
- Paulo Coelho

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.
- Jodi Picoult

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
- Amos Bronson Alcott

I'm healthy and excited to play. And I think this year can be a big year for me if I get the opportunity. I can still play the game. I think I can help a team get to the Super Bowl.
- Shaun Alexander

The morning of the game, I'd woken up in my rez house so my dad could drive me the twenty-two miles to Reardan, so I could get on the team bus for the ride back to the reservation.
Crazy.
- Sherman Alexie

The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs.
I love Italy.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

The Lazio fans always stop here on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs.
I love Italy.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
- Ernest Hemingway

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
- Richie Allen

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
- Steven Wright

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
- Eric Alterman

Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.
- Laurie Halse Anderson

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
- Philip Warren Anderson

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
- Van Morrison

I understood it all. I understood Pablo. I understood Mozart, and somewhere behind me I heard his ghastly laughter. I knew that all the hundred thousand pieces of life's game were in my pocket. A glimpse of its meaning had stirred my reason and I was determined to begin the game afresh. I would sample its tortures once more and shudder again at its senselessness. I would traverse not once more, but often, the hell of my inner being.
- Hermann Hesse

If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the opposite. So now mind what I say! You will hear it and forget it again. You will laugh over it, and you will weep over it. So look out! I am going to play with you for life and death, little brother, and before we begin the game I'm going to lay my cards on the table.
- Hermann Hesse

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

It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.
- Carmelo Anthony

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
- Carmelo Anthony

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.
- Roone Arledge

I know what's happened," Apollo said after a few seconds. My brows furrowed. "What are you talking about?" He nodded at the board. My gaze dropped to the game and I nearly passed out. He'd spelled SEX and AIDEN with those stupid little squares.
- Jennifer L Armentrout

While the Witch plays her pawn, the King sacrifices Himself, and to all appearances, the game is over. But the Lion has one last move..
- Sarah Arthur

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
- Maurice Ashley

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
- Isaac Asimov

I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won.
- Ron Atkinson

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.
- Melina Marchetta

times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played.
- Paul Auster

Every time Sachs posed for a picture, he was forced to impersonate himself, to play the game of pretending to be who he was. After a while, it must have had an effect on him. (...) They say that a camera can rob a person of his soul. In this case, I believe it was just the opposite. With this camera, I believe that Sachs's soul was gradually given back to him.
- Paul Auster

What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.
- John Avlon

I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
- Victoria Azarenka

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.
- Richard Bach

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.
- Richard Bach

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
- Leonard Bacon

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
- Robert Baden Powell

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
- Robert Badenpowell

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.
- Bob Balaban

I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
- Ed Balls

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.
- Ernie Banks

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.
- Tiki Barber

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.
- Tiki Barber

What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.
- Charles Barkley

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
- Charles Barkley

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
- Charles Barkley

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
- Charles Barkley

C'mon, Devyn, move already. You're like watching ice freeze. You keep this pace up and my grandkids will be able to finish the game for you. (Young Adron)
Shut the fuck up, Adron, I'm thinking. (Young Devyn)
Yeah, I can see the smoke coming out of your ears. What? You strip a gear or something trying to think? Want me to call Vik over to take your turn for you? (Young Adron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.
- John Barrow

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
- Dave Barry

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
- Jacques Barzun

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?
- Charles Baudelaire

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.
- Jean Baudrillard

My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten."
"Tell him to take out the goalie.
- Charles M Schulz

For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!"
"And then the game started!
- Charles M Schulz

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
- Jennifer Beals

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.
- Emmanuelle Beart

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.
- Lemony Snicket

These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable.
- Johnny Bench

The feel of arms around me, in comfort rather than as restraint or in harmful intent, undoes me. I cry for all the years of mocking and teasing received at the hands of my peers, for having been born to hateful, careless parents. I cry for the fact that this one good, kind boy has joined the game. And That makes me think it's hopeless to find any goon in anyone, which only makes me cry harder.
- Cindy C Bennett

The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
- Peter Berg

I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.
- Dennis Bergkamp

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
- George Berkeley

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
- Yogi Berra

90% of the game is half mental.
- Yogi Berra

The gamecock proudly stepped into the slaughterhouse.
- Toba Beta

My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
- Gary Bettman

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.
- Joe Biden

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.
- Robert Kiyosaki

This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered a successful game, whereas a game with superb gameplay and a laughable story can see its spine bend from the weight of many accoladesand those who praise the latter game will not be wrong.
- Tom Bissell

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
- Holly Black

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.
- Sepp Blatter

The game against the Vikings back in my second year stands out. It was kind of a turnaround for us. It allowed us to make a run at the playoffs for the first time in quite a while. The memories are so many it's hard to pin one down.
- Drew Bledsoe

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.
- Drew Bledsoe

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
- Drew Bledsoe

Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.
- Drew Bledsoe

There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: Let us drive as far as our graves.
- Isak Dinesen

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
- Don Bluth

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.
- Don Bluth

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.
- Don Bluth

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
- Humphrey Bogart

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
- Wade Boggs

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
- Wade Boggs

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

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.
- Andrew Bogut

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
- Uwe Boll

So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
- Uwe Boll

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
- Uwe Boll

We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage.
- Peter Bondra

We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.
- Peter Bondra

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
- William Shakespeare

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry God for Harry! England and Saint George!
- William Shakespeare

The game is up
- William Shakespeare

Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time
- William Shakespeare

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
- Bjorn Borg

We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
- Ralph Boston

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
- Scotty Bowman

When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
- Geoffrey Boycott

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

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
- Ed Bradley

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
- Wayne Brady

We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.
- Richard Brautigan

I hate this place," Tiara whimpered. "It's super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese's where the games all want to kill you and you never get your pizza.
- Libba Bray

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.
- George Brett

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.
- David Brin

To win you've got to stay in the game.
- Claude M Bristol

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
- Phil Jackson

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
- Lou Brock

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
- Anita Brookner

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
- Garth Brooks

I loved the game. We played because we loved it.
- Jim Brown

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
- Jim Brown

Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.
- Steve Brown

You could have told me earlier."
"You seemed so serious about the game. I didn't want to bother you.
- Nicholas Sparks

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.
- Carrie Brownstein

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.
- Steven Brust

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
- Bear Bryant

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
- Bear Bryant

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
- Kobe Bryant

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
- John Buchan

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
- Jack Buck

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
- Jack Buck

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
- Warren Buffett

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.
- Charles Bukowski

the nights you fight best
are
when all the weapons are pointed
at you,
when all the voices
hurl their insults
while the dream is being
strangled.

the nights you fight best
are
when the game is
fixed,
when the crowd screams
for your
blood.

- Charles Bukowski

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.
- Charles Bukowski

Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain."
"Will you stop calling me that?"
She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, "Owl-head" and "Wise Girl" are kind of lame insults.
- Rick Riordan

Die human, DIE!! Die nasty polluting person!!!!' yelled Grover. I turned him so he faced me. He kept on clicking his plastic gun towards me as if I was part of the game.
- Rick Riordan

But Annabeth just smiled and put us in jail. As she was heading back to the front line, she turned and winked.
"See you at the fireworks?"
She didn't even wait for my answer before darting off into the woods.
I looked at Beckendorf. "Did she just...ask me out?"
He shrugged, completely disgusted. "Who knows with girls? Give me a haywire dragon, any day."
So we sat together and waited while the girls won the game.
- Rick Riordan

Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?
- Rick Riordan

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
- Cameron Van Der Burgh

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
- William S Burroughs

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
- Vannevar Bush

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.
- Jim Butcher

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein

I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.
- Emily Giffin

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
- Voltaire

If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.
- Timothy F Cahill

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.
- Jose Canseco

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
- Eric Cantona

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
- Robert Capa

Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.
- Orson Scott Card

I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. "Katniss...he's still trying to keep you alive." To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.
- Suzanne Collins

The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments.
They say the food is excellent
- Suzanne Collins

We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us might have to show them. There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who i can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.
- Suzanne Collins

It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred.... Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena
- Suzanne Collins

So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?" asks Caesar.
Haymitch shrugs. "I don't see that it makes that much difference. They'll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.
- Suzanne Collins

He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don't try to move away. Why should I anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. "I love you." That's why.
- Suzanne Collins

Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?
- Suzanne Collins

Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.
- Suzanne Collins

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.
- Suzanne Collins

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.
- Suzanne Collins

Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.
- Suzanne Collins

If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games? And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.
- Suzanne Collins

It's the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.
- Suzanne Collins

Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or here's something you can't say because its a...secret; "You can't tell him that because he's not cleared to know that." Government wants to control information and control language because that's the way you control thought, and basically that's the game they're in.
- George Carlin

Yeah, a lot more than he likes you," said Oh. It didn't look like Milo appreciated the joke very much.
"That's debatable," said Milo.
"Is not," said Oh.
She leaned in and put her pink cast against my cheek, kissing me quickly on the lips.
"That's incredibly unfair. If we were gay you'd be up a creek without a paddle. You wouldn't even be in the game."
"He's right, you know," I said.
"Aw. You guys are having a bromance. That's really cute.
- Patrick Carman

I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
- Gary Carter

The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.
- Michael Chabon

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.
- Henry Chadwick

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.
- Henry Chadwick

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
- Lou Holtz

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
- Lou Holtz

What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.
- James Chanos

I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.
- Brandi Chastain

And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
- Brandi Chastain

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then I said, I covet truth;
Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat;
I leave it behind with the games of youth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
- Kate Chopin

We aint in the game to love these hoes, you suppose to hit it and pass it to the left. I diidnt love that hoe , it was just something to do. -- Kyron Santos
- Wahida Clark

Like They Say, the game is chess, it damn sure aint checkers. Every move I make is so that i can conquer and destroy. -- Trae Macklin !
- Wahida Clark

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.
- Roy Clark

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
- John Cleese

I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.
- Roger Clemens

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
- Ty Cobb

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
- Ty Cobb

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
- Sebastian Coe

That's what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.
- Rachel Cohn

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
- Terry Pratchett

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
- Robert A Heinlein

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.
- David Cone

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.
- Michael Connelly

I never once approached greatness, but toward the end of my career, I was always in the game.
- Pat Conroy

In sport the mind serves as the acolyte and apprentice of the body. Nothing interferes with the flow of the game more than the athlete who obsesses about his every move on the court. You move, you react, you recover, you drive, and the thinking is seamless and invisible in the secret codes of your game.
- Pat Conroy

I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.
- Dane Cook

These humiliations are the essence of the game.
- Alistair Cooke

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
- Charles Horton Cooley