Quotes about the game

A collection of quotes on the topic of game.

„The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche, book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

„The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.“

— Henry Jenkins American media scholar 1958

„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

Personality

„When we’re doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.“

— Shigeru Miyamoto Japanese video game designer and producer 1952

Source: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/175791/A_free_tip_from_Miyamoto_Make_your_first_level_last.php

„A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.“

— Shigeru Miyamoto Japanese video game designer and producer 1952

Source: Shigeru Miyamoto: A rushed game is forever bad http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2012/apr/27/shigeru-miyamoto-rushed-game-forever-bad guardian.co.uk Games Blog, published April 27, 2012

„I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.“

— Michael Jordan American retired professional basketball player and businessman 1963

Source: For the Love of the Game

Time

„Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators… The land is one organism.“

— Aldo Leopold American writer and scientist 1887 - 1948

"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 145-146.
1930s
Context: Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

Hate, Love

„I'm only one guy. I took Hedo [Türkoğlu] in the first game and Rashard [Lewis] hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.“

— LeBron James American basketball player 1984

Brown looking for alternatives to slow down Magic offense, Jodie Valade, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 25, 2009 http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2009/05/cavaliers_insider_brown_lookin.html,
James before Game 3 of the 2009 Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Orlando Magic.

Guy

„You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.“

— LeBron James American basketball player 1984

Bad luck, People

„I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.“

— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

„Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.“

— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

Sex

„The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.“

— John D. Carmack American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman 1970

Quoted in Seth Schiesel, Microsoft Unveils Games For Its New Xbox 360 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3DF1E30F935A35753C1A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all The New York Times (2005-10-06)

„I often liken the process of physics research to solving a jigsaw puzzle. As we put together pieces to form patches, a certain image of the overall picture emerges, but until the game is sufficiently progressed, we are not quite sure. I feel much the same way about the wealth of signs for new particles. We have patches that have been put together, but we are not quite sure how all pieces will fit together into a coherent whole. There are also certain pieces which do not seem to fit into any patches at all. For the most part, the experimental findings have not been completely unexpected, but there have been certain surprises that I, for one, had not foreseen. This is what makes particle physics exciting and tantalizing. At moments of despair and frustration, I feel as though somebody has scrambled two boxes of jigsaw puzzles for me to put together.“

— Benjamin W. Lee Korean American physicist 1935 - 1977

about his work as a particle physicist, at the Fermilab History and Archives Project: Benjamin Lee comments on HEP discoveries http://history.fnal.gov/significant_staff.html#Benjamin_Lee (May, 1976).

Box, Wealth, Despair, Parting

„If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.“

— Chris Rock American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director 1965

Daughters

„I'm tired of gang murders and gang shootings. It's a tough life to lead. You fear death at every moment, and worse than death, you fear the rats of the game who'd run around and tell the police if you don't constantly satisfy them with money and favors.“

— Al Capone American gangster 1899 - 1947

Death, Life, Fear, Money

„Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Baby, Time, Thinking, Hate

„Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.“

— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Variant: May the odds be ever in your favor!
Source: The Hunger Games

Happiness, Hunger

„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

„We will never be a pawn in someone else's game. We will always be Afghanistan.“

— Ahmad Shah Massoud Afghan military leader 1953 - 2001

Attributed in Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda (2005) by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo.

„Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.“

— Michael Jordan American retired professional basketball player and businessman 1963

Source: Jordan, Michael. I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. p. 129
Context: I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying [no hard work].
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (p. 20, 24)

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