“How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?”

“If I have to play your stupid games, at least I don’t have to pretend to enjoy them.”

“You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don’t try to play theirs.
reported by Bill Walton”

“Play the game, but don’t believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.”

“A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?”

“It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.”

“I think hockey is a game, a child's game, played by men and to play it effectively you must have fun just like children do. I've been with too many teams in sports through the years where you weren't allowed to open your mouth, you weren't allowed to laugh, you weren't allowed to question the coach or anyone in authority … You lived in fear. My players don't live in fear. They get up in the morning, they're happy and they go to bed, they're happy. And that's the type of person I am.”

“Have you noticed lately how video games are getting way more sexually explicit and violent? I really gotta buy me one of them games!”

“Games develop personal techniques and skills necessary for the game itself, through playing. Skills are developed at the very moment a person is having all the fun and excitement playing a game has to offer--this is the exact time one is truly open to receive them.”

“That's why they don't play games on paper. They play them inside television sets. Let's go to the highlights.”