“It's important that you win games at any level.”
Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager
27-Feb-2009, Hull Daily Mail
He's getting the hang of this football management lark!
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“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”
Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player
Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974) Japanese video game director
Dark Souls 3 Interview: "It Wouldn’t Be Right to Continue Creating Souls" https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dark-souls-3-interview-it-wouldnt-be-right-to-cont/1100-6432425/ (November 20, 2015)
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
Jerome David Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye
Mr. Spencer
Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 2
Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937) Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
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.
“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 431)
John D. Carmack (1970) American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman
Quoted in David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture Chapter 8, p. 120.
Variant: Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important.
“Yes, my biggest game, but not my best game. My best game is when I drive in the winning run.”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Bemoaning his wasted 3-home run/7-RBI performance of May 15, 1967; as quoted in “Biggest Game Wasted: Roberto Collects 3 HRs, 7 RBIs As Bucs Lose, 8-7” by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Tuesday, May 16, 1967), p. 34
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1967</big>
