Top 55 Playing Games Quotes

The only way you’re going to improve is playing games and learning, being a regular week on week.

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don’t. This was a prank, and a silly one. I’m focused on my work.

I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don’t like the term ‘exercising.’ I feel like with sport, you’re playing games. But with exercise, you’re literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It’s weird.

I’m not going to tone down my rhetoric, and I’m not going to censor myself in sharing what I believe to be the truth. People could either love that or hate that, but I’m not really interested in playing games in order to appeal to a broader audience.

If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you’ve ever imagined facing at work.

I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross.

I am of the opinion that the burden of playing games is much too high, especially for international players that also play domestically with their clubs.

Those market researchers… are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother’s big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

Growing up I always wanted to play in the Premier League and now I get to resume living my dream, which is playing games and I can’t wait to get back.

Trip Hawkins – and this was the early 1980s – was saying there’s going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they’re going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

I don’t get nervous in any situation. There’s no such thing as nerves when you’re playing games.

Playing games can contribute to making you happy, perhaps even without therapy.

We’ve been playing games since humanity had civilization – there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It’s so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

People talk about games and loneliness – it’s a lonely activity. I didn’t understand that. ‘Gears of War’ was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn’t sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

I don’t remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.

Playing games is the best time of your life, and the more games you get, the better it is.

I love playing games, but also training.

I’ve been playing games for 30 years, and I’ve been a hard-core gamer.

Getting stronger and fitter by playing games is only going to help me.

We hung out with a group of nerdy friends playing games.

You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, ’cause then it’s five months of sitting around and watching the playoffs.

I think that PC gaming is as healthy as it’s ever been. I think there’s probably more people playing games on their PCs, I just don’t think they’re gamers.

As a gamer, I can’t think of anything more annoying for everyone concerned than playing games in a shared living room.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played ‘Astrosmash’ for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me.

I train all week just to play for 90 minutes. I love playing games, and so during those 90 minutes, it’s always 100 per cent.

It’s always difficult not playing games and that match fitness and sharpness is something you always lack when you don’t get that opportunity.

I didn’t have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a lot, a lot of fantasy novel stuff.

The only way you can get match fitness is by playing games.

Sometimes when you start playing games you don’t get as many practices and you don’t get as many touches. People think you have the puck the whole time during a game – you really don’t.

I grew up playing games like ‘War Zone’ and the old ‘Smackdown,’ so I’m very excited to see myself in a game.

Without practice, just playing games, a lot of habits kind of slip away.

I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I’m playing games. It’s more fun.

I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing ‘Bard’s Tale 2’ on his Commodore 64.

You can only get fit by playing games. There’s only so many training sessions you can do.

Acting is a really simple job – it’s just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That’s all it is. My kids do it all the time when they’re dressing up and playing games.

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

Only by playing games regularly will I be able to hit my peak.

I have a whole room fully dedicated to playing games. Special chair on the ground with the speakers in it. The whole thing.

I’m used to playing football every day, travelling, playing games.

As a goalkeeper experience is a massive thing, and there is nothing better than playing games, which thankfully I managed to do at the Olympics.

I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called ‘roof ball.’ We’d play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.

I was always thankful for the YMCA. Of course, growing up, you don’t really think about it, because when you’re a kid, you’re in your own world. But back then, it was just so much. I’m going to go the Y, hanging out, playing games all day, playing basketball.

Playing games and watching film, I’ve been able to see the improvements I can make and how much better I can be. It’s exciting to think about it.

I love hanging out with friends. Honestly, one of my favorite things to do is have game night. Just people coming over and hanging out and laughing and playing games.

At home, I’m daddy and a husband. There’s no Superman’s cape. I’m changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring ‘Angry Birds’ and playing games with them.

I’m really into playing games on my phone.

My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn’t really belong.

I believe that if we don’t make moves to get people who don’t play games to understand them, then the position of video games in society will never improve. Society’s image of games will remain largely negative, including that stuff about playing games all the time badly damaging you or rotting your brain or whatever.

I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they’ve always been a big hobby of mine.

The biggest challenge in Russia was the cold weather at first but after playing games at -12, I think I am settling down quickly.