- 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
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.
- Better Off
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
- Think
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
- Myself
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
- Dress
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.
- Down
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
- Job
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
- My Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.
- Attempted
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of the time we end up taking people who - and this is sort of a big cultural advantage at Activision - we find people who are, have a graduate degree of some kind - mainly it's in the sciences - and they are in jobs that would never suggest that they were working for anything game related but that they're passionate gamers.
- Opportunity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Mobile gaming is the largest and fastest-growing opportunity for interactive entertainment, and we will have one of the world's most successful mobile game companies and its talented teams providing great content to new customers, in new geographies, throughout the world.
- Business
- |
- Nov 07, 2020