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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
- Executed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once-dominant games like straight pool and three-cushion billiards have lost ground to eight-ball - the game of choice for millions of tavern league players - and nine-ball, the preeminent tournament game.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don't boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don't lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you run for the U.S. Senate, it's a full game on. This is not for the faint of heart.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to go out there, and you want to be sharp, and you want to execute your game plan and... get it done fast.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't have the drive and determination to wake up every day and train with young, hungry fighters, if I don't want to do that, then I need to get out of the game, but as long as my body says I'm all right, and my hunger stays the same, I'm going to keep going.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't quote stats from another decade. I've got friends that can do that. But I am a huge sports fan. In fact, I enjoy all sports, and when I enjoy a game for five minutes, I'm in it for the whole thing. Plus, I do have some teams I loyally follow.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020