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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
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion?
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always experience each game the same way, but the Clasico has something extra because you can't play one every day.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am sure my own game is improving by playing in Serie A.
- Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Spain, it was a risk because I was really young. But I quickly learned the game, and I grew as a result.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of family in South Africa, but I grew up in California. I feel like my name keeps me connected to a long line of people that have been through a heck of a lot. It reminds me to stay grateful, and it reminds me to try and step my game up if I'm slacking.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dotting teams up and bowling maidens back to back cannot be underestimated in Australian conditions because it gives you control of the game.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am taking each game as it comes, enjoying it and taking that little bit of extra time to look around a full stadium, because I know it's not going to last forever. But I will try and make it last as long as possible.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lowest point in my non-league career came when I was a teenage substitute for Workington Reds in a game at Blyth Spartans, and some kids started throwing eggs at me and the other subs when we were warming up.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was through the Hammerheads that I got a route into the professional game, via a trial at Sunderland from Mick McCarthy and then an invitation to come back to Carlisle in 2004.
- Tough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, I don't have any real speed to work with so I have to use other things. The modern game is very speed based so as soon as managers see that you haven't got that pace it can be tough.
- Moving Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've added to my abilities since moving to Bournemouth. You are always having to re-learn how to be a centre-forward as the game is moving forward.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football can give everyone who loves the game their great moments and most dreadful disappointments. All it takes is a couple of bad injuries or decisions to turn a season and that's just the unforgiving nature of sport.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020