Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Halse Anderson

Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.

Thierry Henry

But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.

Thierry Henry

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

Thierry Henry

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

Thierry Henry

People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didnt see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he changed the game, that is what killed the game - sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and Etoo and people like that, you need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight

Thierry Henry

When we won the league at Tottenham, they came back 2-2 in the last-minute of the game, and they're celebrating - because they're happy to draw against us, obviously. And I remember saying to Mauricio Tarricco, do you realise we only need a point to be Champions? And they all [were really shocked]. So I said 'Yes. Now we're going to celebrate on your pitch. Bye bye!'

Theophilus London

As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game.

Terry Teachout

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

Leo Rosten

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Karl Popper

The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.

Julio Cortazar

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

Juan Manuel Fangio

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Karl Kraus

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

Kami Garcia

They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

Kami Garcia

Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?

Junior Seau

I get paid to practice. I play the game for free.

Paul Konerko

Whether he gets hit early or in the middle or late, he gets in his seven innings it seems like every time. There are also great defensive plays made behind him and it's not a coincidence. Guys are in the game. He works quick.

Patrick Chan

I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

Paolo Maldini

Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it.

Paola Antonelli

I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

Ozzie Newsome

I scored a touchdown on the first reception I made in the NFL and spiked the ball. The instant I did, I felt horrible and couldn't wait for the game to end so I could call Coach Bryant and apologize. He said he didn't even notice, but I never spiked the ball again.

Peter Greenaway

Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

Emily Murphy

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

Emanuel Steward

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is not a game for the young.

Elisabeth Shue

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Elaine Paige

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Jimmy Rollins

Hustle is just playing the game right.

Jim Thome

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

Jim Thome

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.