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Games Quotes and Sayings

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden

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.

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
Italian proverb

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.
Jim Cole quotes

Most games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck

Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe Bryant

Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realizes that it’s just a game.
Nerijus Stasiulis

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where’s your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don’t you see that there is no effort if you’re riding with your river?
Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
Babe Ruth

You don’t have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps.

If past history was all there was to the game, the
richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

Whoever called snooker “chess with balls” was rude, but right.
Clive James

We can’t worry about who we don’t have. We have to go into these games with the guys we have.
Terry Porter

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
Eric Berne

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Charles Lamb

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
Stephen Sondheim

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.
Michel Patini

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

The bowling alley is the poor man’s country club.
Sanford Hansell

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
Dave Barry

I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.
Mary-Kate Olsen

No one man is superior to the game.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
Indian Proverb

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Leo F. Buscaglia

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
George Will

Never play cat and mouse games if you’re a mouse.
Don Addis

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
WOPR – In the movie “War Games”

It’s all fun and games, until someone looses an eye…than it’s fun and games you can’t see anymore.
James Hetfield

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else’s, but I find that other people’s imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.
Margaret Mahy

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.
Elisabeth Shue

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan

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