Playing Video Games Quotes:

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

- Shaun White

source: "Q&A: Shaun White breaks down new 'Skateboarding' title". Interview with Brett Molina, content.usatoday.com. June 15, 2010.

topic: Using Your Brain, Games, Skills, Interactive, Playing Video Games

Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

- Kevin Garnett

topic: Games, Video, Gamer, Playing Video Games, Spare Time

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

- Demetri Martin

topic: Character, Men, Games, Just Leave Me Alone, Me Alone

Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

- John Green

source: John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.98, Penguin

topic: Eye, Hands, Games, Playing Video Games

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

- Bill Gates

source: "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

topic: Playing Video Games

When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.

- Penn Jillette

topic: Years, Games, Listening, Playing Video Games

The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.

- Simon Sinek

topic: Sleep, Games, Feel Good, Playing Video Games, Time Well Spent

I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics.

- Kellan Lutz

topic: Reading, Games, Video, Playing Video Games

My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games.

- Cam Newton

source: "NFL Star Cam Newton Talks Fashion, Duck Dynasty, And Getting Video Bombed By His Teammates". Interview with Evan Schwartz, www.vibe.com. June 13, 2013.

topic: Playing Video Games

Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.

- Don Cheadle

topic: Dad, Humble, Kids, Ironman, Playing Video Games

Whenever I'm around my guy friends, I'm always playing video games. I've always enjoyed the graphics side of them, how they look.

- Sophia Bush

topic: Games, Guy, Looks, Playing Video Games, Guy Friend

I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.

- John C. Reilly

topic: Games, Eight, Feelings, Playing Video Games

I think that people should find a niche that will work. I have friends growing up who sat around playing video games for hours after school, and now they work for the video game industry. People need to find a niche so it doesn't feel like a job anymore. When I'm working on the "Lights Out" brand, it's fun. It's not work.

- Shawne Merriman

topic: Jobs, Growing Up, Fun, Playing Video Games, Friends Growing Up

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

- David Price

topic: Baseball, School, Games, Playing Video Games, Competitive Person

According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. (The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

- Kelly McGonigal

source: Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.6, Harper Collins

topic: Sports, Religious, Stress, Stress Relief, Surfing The Internet

APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?

- Dan Wells

topic: Girl, Mean, Games, Lack Of Empathy, Chasing A Girl

I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.

- Chris Kluwe

topic: Football, Children, Games, Playing Football, Playing Video Games

I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

- Vince Vaughn

topic: Art, Niece, Home, Niece And Nephew, My Niece

When I'm not working out, playing football or working with Vita Coco, I'm a video game nerd. I love playing video games. I'm really good at FIFA. I'm not one of those guys that uses Barcelona or Real Madrid to win. My skills are real, so I don't need a loaded team to dominate. You don't want to play me in FIFA.

- Giovani Bernard

source: Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

topic: Football, Real, Team, Playing Video Games, Fifa

I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.

- Felicia Day

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Friday, Party, Night, Friday Night, Playing Video Games

You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

- Ned Vizzini

topic: Sleep, Games, Play, Playing Video Games

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

- Jack White

topic: Airplane, Kids, Men, Steamboats, Playing Video Games