Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, ‘What story do you have to tell?’
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.
My only feeling about superstition is that it’s unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain’t where they need to be to be online, you know what I’m saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.
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.
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
The mistake British comedians often make is trying to beat the Americans at their own game – getting visiting American singers on their shows, talking about ‘sidewalk’ instead of ‘pavement,’ sitting on high stools in a white dinner jacket doing ballads. That way, you simply end up with a mid-Atlantic mishmash.
We want to inspire cricket fans and enhance their love for the game as well as bring new people and children into the fold and encourage them to pick up a bat.
Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won’t allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.
It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
The time your game is most vulnerable is when you’re ahead; never let up.
But in the end it’s still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can’t shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you’ve missed the point.
I like to call it a ‘sacred fire’ when you have it inside you: the will to win every game.
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
Just because I have to deal with the stress and pressure and nerves of elite sport every day, it doesn’t mean it all comes easily. I have worked hard at the mental side of my game.
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on.
If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
I’m not the strongest, I’m not the fastest, I can’t jump the highest, so for me, it’s doing it in other ways: changing paces, using your body to get open, knowing your defender. A lot goes into it. You have to study the game.
When I get on TV, I’m going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I’m going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I’m very aware of all the social stuff going on.
Versatility is very important in the modern game.
Quite honestly, cricket is same at all levels. It’s a game of bat and ball.
We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.
Real Madrid are favourites in every championship and in every game, but we will stay humble in order to earn a victory.
A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.
Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.
That is what Christmas should be about, I think – togetherness and playfulness. It’s like a game.
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It’s part ballet. It’s part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.
Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul – nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.
I hadn’t watched ‘Lord of the Rings’ – I’m gonna get so much flack for this, but I hadn’t watched ‘Lord of the Rings’ when I started watching ‘Game of Thrones.’
I know what I’m capable of. I know when the game is on the line and we need a spark play, I’m going to make that play. But we’ve got to be smart about it. Can’t be forcing a lot of things if I’m getting double-covered a lot.
In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through – if it is labored, it fails.
There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark – ask any player about when they’ve had a bad game, it’s still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.
I’ve always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.
Baseball is a hard game. There’s going to be ups and downs.
I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Soccer is a magical game.
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
A lot of people think a running back is just a guy who lowers his shoulder and runs people over, and that’s not my game.
My game, I just want to be a complete receiver.
My belief in God has been helping me play the way I’m playing. But for the most part, I’ve just been working on my game.
I’m overly confident. I believe in myself 100 percent. I believe in my game, and I believe in my work ethic.
Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.
If you’re not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn’t get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
I am conscious of that when I make these games: I try to make a game that has beautiful open spaces, gaps, room for players to enjoy it in ways that were not authored. I never want it to be where you have to follow the rules completely, where you have to do things exactly as the designers intended.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
I’ve often said, ‘If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.’ Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler.
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
I try to avoid all mistakes. I try to prepare my players and to put them in the best condition to play the game. If you discover a problem during the game, it is too late. You must anticipate and prepare.
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
I’ve always felt that it didn’t feel right for me when a protagonist goes through a storyline where they’re killing a lot of enemies, and at the very end of the story he ends up kissing the heroine and that’s where you end the game.
I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.
If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
I want to keep my head in the game, my ego low.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
