- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Game Quotes
From the golf course to the chessboard.
This page uses "game" loosely — from a famously dismissive take on golf as a waste of effort, to praise for the creativity found in game development compared with feature filmmaking. If gaming culture specifically interests you, see Games quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.
- Hawkins
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want to read as much about it as you can, see it live and watch as many games as you can. If you're the type who wants to be as involved as you can in the sport, you're probably going to want to play 'Madden NFL.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.
- Cumulative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020