- 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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
- Golf Courses
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
- Missed
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
The player I look up to is Rio Ferdinand. I have always played at the back, and I've always tried to base my game on his.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to vary up my game, and I'm working on that. I know I need to get better.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever we got the chance to watch a game with my dad, it was like watching video with an NHL coach.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Serie A players have to stay in a hotel before a home game to ensure proper preparations without the distractions a wife and family can bring. It's a system which no doubt suits some players, but would not be my choice.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a defender it can also be more frustrating to play in Italy because referees do not tolerate too much physical contact. I loved the physical nature of the game in England, but in Serie A I only have to look at a player and they sometimes fall to the floor!
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020