The game of life is a lot like football. You have
to tackle your problems, block your fears, and
score your points when you get the opportunity.
- Unknown
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi
If past history was all there was to the game, the
richest people would be librarians.
- Warren Buffett
Your opponent, in the end, is never really the
player on the other side of the net, or the
swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other
side of the field, or even the bar you must
high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your
negative internal voices, your level of
determination.
- Grace Lichtenstein
American Writer & Editor
When you know your own strengths and weaknesses,
you are better able to know those of others. Once
you do, managing people becomes an optimization
game, where everyone wins.
- Floyd Maxwell (1957-)
Democrats will play the old Washington game of
calling reductions in the rate of growth of
spending for any program a 'cut'.
- Bruce Bartlett
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my life. I
have lost almost 300 game 26 times I have been
trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.
I have failed over and over and over again. That
is why I succeed...
- Michael Jordan
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go
back in the same box.
- Italian proverb
Half the game is 90% mental.
- Yogi Berra
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human
intelligence as you can find outside of an
advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler
They are playing a game they are playing at not
playing a game, if I show them that I see they
are, I shall break the rules and they will punish
me Therefore I must play the game of not seeing
that I see the game.
- RD Laing
Mathematics is a game played according to certain
simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
- David Hilbert
No one man is superior to the game.
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- A. Bartlett Giamatti
A strange game. The only winning move is not to
play.
- WOPR - In the movie "War Games"
after learning the futility of "playing" Global Thermonuclear War by playing a seemingly endless series of games of Tic-Tac-Toe with itself.