Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Newcombe

Your game is only as good as your second serve

John Thorn

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.

John Steinbeck

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

Mark Teixeira

There are always things to improve on. I want to improve on my defense, and you can never be a perfect hitter. I want to focus on just playing more and being able to improve on all parts of my game.

Mark Mulder

I want to be one who has to throw the big game.

Pauly Shore

I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.

Travis Hafner

All of the games right now are big, so I just hope we go out and score 10 runs off him.

All the big players did big things. That's what make these games so great.

All the games were close. Our losses were 7-0, games like that.

All the games we played prior to region play really helped us out. Our kids are really understanding what we have to do. They know each other and what we can do on the floor.

All the games so far, we've been in every game, we've just not done the things we have to do to win. I think that it'll just take a little while to get everything going.

All the games have come right down to the wire, and this Saturday should be no exception.

All these games matter and we want to win all of them.

Adam Foote

All these games are kind of a finals. There is no room for errors.

Jason Terry

All the remaining games (12) are important. We're jockeying for position every night trying to get the No. 1 seed.

All the hype about us being the greatest team, then you look at the standings and we're in the cellar. We've got to win some games and get going in the right direction." ()

Anders did well tonight. He was pushing two shifts all game and kept skating hard.

Edward Brooke

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

The marketplace for the game this year has been very strong.

Holly Black

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

Holly Black

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

Hermann Hesse

...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.

Hermann Hesse

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.

Henrik Lundqvist

No special suits for game days. I like to keep all my favorites in the mix. I'm always trying to look my best, even when I'm just visiting a city for eight hours and then getting back on a plane again.

Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Leslie Mann

I'm pretty much game for anything.

Jon Foreman

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

Jon Anderson

I love X-Games music.

Johnny Damon

I play every game like it's going to be my last.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

John Cleese

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

Johannes Kepler

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.