Quotes and Sayings About Games
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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
-- A. P. Herbert -
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
-- Abba Eban -
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
-- Abby Sunderland -
You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.
-- Abby Wambach -
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
-- Abdul Kalam -
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
-- Abhinav Bindra -
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
-- Abraham Pais -
You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!
-- Aceyalone -
Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.
-- Adam Dunn -
For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.
-- Adam Fletcher -
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
-- Adam Gopnik -
I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.
-- Adam Lambert -
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
-- Adam Osborne -
I've been punched by a vampire, an Indian girl, and a panda... I should be a video game.
-- Adam Rex -
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
-- Adam Sedgwick -
For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
-- Adam Shankman -
We want to get to a point where Twitter highlights lead to purchase of a live game
-- Adam Silver -
I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.
-- Ade Akinbiyi -
To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.
-- Adelina Sotnikova -
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
-- Adolph Rupp -
I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.
-- Adrian Peterson
