Quotes about the game

„Make sure that you are next year's big success story. Don't fall into the pit of people who have given up on making something of themselves, and make sure you make everything out of yourself. I'm getting too old for this. And when I retire someday, I'm going to want to sit down at a computer and play your games, read your stories, and watch your videos. Don't fall in with the people who have already given up on themselves. You are tomorrow's next big thing.“

—  Scott Cawthon American independent video game designer 1971

„I’d made a family friendly game about a beaver before this, when I went to put it online it got torn apart by a few prominent reviewers. People said that the main character looked like a scary animatronic animal. I was heartbroken and was ready to give up on game-making. Then one night something just snapped in me, and I thought to myself- I bet I can make something a lot scarier than that.“

—  Scott Cawthon American independent video game designer 1971

„In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind.… I wanted what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular powers should do and want by virtue of their offices.“

—  Adam Weishaupt German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati 1748 - 1830

Die Leuchte des Diogenes (1804) p. 329.

„The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part; the important thing in Life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.“

—  Pierre de Coubertin Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian 1863 - 1937

As quoted in The Olympian (1984) by Peter L. Dixon, p. 210
Context: The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part; the important thing in Life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. To spread these principles is to build up a strong and more valiant and, above all, more scrupulous and more generous humanity.

„If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.“

—  Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

„The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.“

—  Gordon Ramsay British chef, writer and TV presenter 1966

„Love me or hate me, it's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved, for the exact same reasons.“

—  Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020

„You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.“

—  Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020

„Don't ask me silly questions
I won't play silly games
I'm just a simple choo choo train
And I'll always be the same.

I only want to race along
Beneath the bright blue sky
And be a happy choo choo train
Until the day I die.“

—  Stephen King, book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

„The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.“

—  Ram Dass American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now 1931 - 2019

„I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.“

—  Toni Morrison American writer 1931 - 2019

„I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.“

—  Magnus Carlsen Norwegian chess player 1990

ChessBase.com - Magnus Carlsen on his chess career, 15 March 2010 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6187

„Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. And this is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere. Everyone can play it but those values are being lost. We have to bring them back.“

—  Johan Cruyff Dutch association football player 1947 - 2016

In an interview with The Guardian's Donald McRae in September 2014 https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/sep/12/johan-cruyff-louis-van-gaal-manchester-united.

„Our competitors are always saying that Nintendo is just for children. To counter that, what we really need to do is explain to customers and potential customers [that we do not just make games for kids].“

—  Satoru Iwata Japanese video game programmer and businessman 1959 - 2015

„It isn't about "games", for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself.“

—  Shigeru Miyamoto Japanese video game designer and producer 1952

Source: GDC 2011

„You request my presence at the Olympic Games, and for that reason you have sent envoys. For myself, I would come for the spectacle of physical struggle, except that I would be abandoning the greater struggle for virtue.“

—  Apollonius of Tyana Ancient Greek philosopher 15 - 100

Epp. Apoll. 24
Letters

„Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas“

—  Eleanor H. Porter, book Pollyanna

Source: Pollyanna

„I score a lot of goals that are hard to replicate. I don't think that you can score as spectacular a goal as those of Zlatan in a video game - even though these games are very realistic these days.“

—  Zlatan Ibrahimović Swedish association football player 1981

On his goals which are too good to be recreated on games consoles http://www.insideworldsoccer.com/2013/12/you-cant-copy-zlatan-ibrahimovic-goals-even-in-video-games.html.
Attributed

„In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.“

—  Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992