Funny Game Quotes:

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Games, Half, Baseball Games, Funniest Sports

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

- Satchel Paige

source: "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

topic: Funny, Sports, Baseball, Sports Competition, Sports Spirit

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Men, Average, Born, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

- Paul Coffey

topic: Hockey, Pride, Games, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.

- Michael Haneke

topic: Dog, Hurt, Animal, Provocation, Funny Game

In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.

- Michael Haneke

topic: Games, Video, Violence, Funny Game

It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

- Michael Haneke

topic: Games, Different, Able, Funny Game

Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.

- John McEnroe

topic: Games, Tennis, Lows, Funny Game

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

- Karrie Webb

source: "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". www.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.

topic: Golf, Winning, Games, Funny Game

Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.

- Bob Hope

topic: Golf, Games, People, Funny Game, Funny Golf

When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.

- Carlos Cuaron

source: Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

topic: Sports, Football, Drama, Violent Films, Sports Movie