Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Yourcenar

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Mike Candrea

That's the thing about this game -- you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence.

Mickey Mantle

I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

Mickey Mantle

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

Mickey Mantle

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

Nathan Myhrvold

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

Naomi Klein

The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing monetary policy but also changing the behavior of consumers, employers and workers. The role of a sudden, jarring policy shift is that it quickly alters expectations, signaling to the public that the rules of the game have changed dramatically - prices will not keep rising, nor will wages.

Mitt Romney

I'm not a big-game hunter. I've made that very clear. I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will.

Mike Parry

There's a certain Englishness about the English game

R. D. Laing

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

Paul Fussell

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

Patrick McEnroe

Instant replay is going to be awesome. For too long, tennis has been stuck in its traditions, which is part of its strength as a game. But you have to be able to change some things and get fans interested.

Lillian Hellman

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

Leon Panetta

My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.

Lefty Gomez

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

Lauren Oliver

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

Larry the Cable Guy

Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.

Pablo Picasso

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

Paul Merson

Paul Lambert has learned Fabian Delph the game.

Paul Ince

We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.

Omar Vizquel

He works fast. He throws a lot of strikes. That's what an infielder loves. It gets you into the game.

Olivier Martinez

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

Olivia Newton-John

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Oliver Kahn

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

Oliver Goldsmith

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

Margaret Atwood

All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.

Marcel Dionne

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

Kevin Mitnick

I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.

Kelly Hu

I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity.

Brandon Roy

Any time you lose three in row it gets hard to put the game away, so I took it myself to put it away.

Roy Halladay

Any time we did any of those running exercises, it was obviously the toughest part for me. Simulated games later on got a little tough.

Any tournament game is going to be tough. We want these kinds of games because it helps us down the stretch.

Any time you win a game on the road, it's huge. We wanted to get back on track with this game and we accomplished that goal.