Tough Games Quotes:

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

- Mike Singletary

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Athlete, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Sports, Tough Games

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

- Willie Mays

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Baseball, Funny Sports

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

- Mike Krzyzewski

topic: Basketball, Team, Games, Tough Games

What's tough is being good every day.

- Willie Mays

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Tough, Inspirational Baseball, Funny Sports

I am not afraid of anybody.   This is a tough game.   You can't be intimidated.   You can't be frightened.   And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

- Maxine Waters

topic: Tough Games, Tea Party

Professional football's a tough game. It's a lot of contact. It's a lot of wear and tear on your body. You've got elite athletes running into each other, play after play, at high speeds. And this is something that I love and I enjoy.

- John Urschel

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Football, Running, Athlete, Elite Athletes, Tough Games

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.

- Anatoly Karpov

source: "Big Think Interview with Anatoly Karpov". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. May 17, 2010.

topic: Strong, Games, Quality, Very Strong, Tough Games

These are tough games to play. We shared the puck and we wanted everyone to get a chance to score. Tough games to play in. We want close games. That is why we train so hard. We want to show our fans some even games.

- Caroline Ouellette

topic: Hockey, Games, Play, Tough Games

We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.

- Carmelo Anthony

topic: Basketball, Team, Winning, Tough Games

It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

- Mark Messier

topic: Sports, Games, Want, Tough Games

I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.

- Tim Hudson

topic: Games, Guy, Pitching, Tough Guy, Tough Games

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

- Bobby Orr

topic: Hockey, Player, Games, Tough Games

Hockey is a tough game.

- Bobby Orr

topic: Hockey, Games, Tough, Tough Games

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it . . . and I'd hate to see it go.

- Ben Hannant

topic: Sports, Hate, Games, Rugby League, Tough Games

Perk, from the minute you got here... I hated you before you got here... But the moment you got here, man, you just changed my whole perception of you. Just one of the best teammates I ever had. I just thank you so much. The late night calls after tough games, you texting me, telling me I'm the MVP. That means a lot to me, man. Thank you.

- Kevin Durant

topic: Mean, Men, Night, Late Night, Tough Games

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

- Sourav Ganguly

topic: Team, Winning, Games, Tough Games

We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.

- Barry Ferguson

topic: Football, Games, Today, Tough Games

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

- Chase Utley

topic: Baseball, Games, Play, Tough Games

Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes.

- Rickson Gracie

topic: Sports, Heart, Fighting, Judo, Tough Games