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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

Gamer
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Nov 07, 2020

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.

Nov 07, 2020

You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.

Fame
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Nov 07, 2020

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.

Job
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Nov 07, 2020

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.

Nov 07, 2020

I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.

Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I never go into a fight thinking, 'I have to finish this guy' - that's not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight.

Quotes by Cain Velasquez

Game Plan
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Nov 07, 2020

You just have to fight the perfect fight to win. You have to have a game plan and follow it. You have to develop every time you go out there and keep getting better.

Quotes by Cain Velasquez

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

Let me be clear: MMA training is tough work, and every fighter has had to enter the Octagon with aches and pains as well as exhaustion. This is the game.

Quotes by Cain Velasquez

Improving
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Nov 07, 2020

The name of the game is improving, and I've done that.

Quotes by Cain Velasquez

More
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Nov 07, 2020

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Quotes by Caitlin Stasey

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.

Quotes by Byron Allen

Character
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Nov 07, 2020

The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.

Quotes by Byron Howard

Next
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Nov 07, 2020

We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.

Quotes by Burnie Burns

Nov 07, 2020

I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.

Quotes by Burgess Owens

Nov 07, 2020

On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.

Quotes by Burgess Owens

Nov 07, 2020

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'm going into second base.

Quotes by Bryce Harper

Nov 07, 2020

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Quotes by Bryce Harper

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

Seriously, it takes me, like, 30 minutes to do my hair before a game.

Quotes by Bryce Harper

There's also a striking historical metaphor here, comparing a losing military position to an endgame in chess where the outcome is already decided. For competitive framing elsewhere, try Game Plan quotes or Gamer quotes.

Game Quotes

From the golf course to the chessboard.

There's also a striking historical metaphor here, comparing a losing military position to an endgame in chess where the outcome is already decided. For competitive framing elsewhere, try Game Plan quotes or Gamer quotes.

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