The Game Quotes

I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

Football is a sad game.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!

You cant run a football game in Tiger Stadium without 1,500-1,600 people to help.

...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

Every football coach worries about every football game.

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

As long as we're honest and not mean, it's all fair game no matter what you say.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

The world is changing isn't it? So you're not allowed to pray before a football game. I thought it was horrible.

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

My drug of choice is beer. It's not only socially accepted, you can't even watch a football game without having it shoved in your face a thousand times.

I think Marshawn Lynch is the most important player in this football game.

I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.