I Am Game Quotes

“You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.”

— Michael Connelly

“So when life throws a curve ball, do your best to hit it and run to first base. If it tries to get you out of the game, do your best to get to the home plate. Yes there will be those looking for you to fail, but there are also those who are cheering you on. If not then cheer for yourself!”

— Atlanta Hunter

“Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw the pros and cons, know that ah'm gaunnae huv a short life, am ah sound mind, ectetera, ectetera, but still want tae use smack? They won't let ye dae it. They won't let ye dae it, because it's seen as a sign ay thir ain failure. The fact that ye jist simply choose tae reject whut they huv tae offer. Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life. Well, ah choose no tae choose life. If the cunts cannae handle that, it's thair fuckin problem. As Harry Launder sais, ah jist intend tae keep right on to the end of the road ...”

— Irvine Welsh

“I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.”

— Hugh Laurie

“On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win-grunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing.
Oh ... and the players were all baboons.”

— Rick Riordan

“All I hope is that you can someday know that love doesn't have to be a brutal, bitter, power game. Love can be the ugly beautiful.”

— Lauren Blakely

“One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on that for a salary. I think it would be such a different game if I had to write a book that has to sell well.”

— Aimee Bender

“The game is fixed. Alwayas has been, always will be, and the only way out for a man is the gangster's road.”

— Nick Harkaway

“I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.”

— Roberto Alomar

“As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.”

— Michael Azerrad

“Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?”

— Johnny Bench

“All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me. I am fun. I am playful. I am game. I feel naturally happy and entirely satisfied.”

— Gillian Flynn

“I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.”

— Nicolas Cage

“In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.”

— Paula Deen

“In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame.”

— Jose Andres

“Here is a story of a young prince who suddenly sees that the ambitious world is a big game of king
of the mountain, a boy scrambling up a pile of sand to call out, "I am king"; then another
throws him off to make his momentary claim, then another and so on.”

— Rumi

“In football I enjoyed competing and wanted to be the best. That was also part of it. There were quite a few factors. I loved the game, it was a great way to socialize and I liked playing against girls because it meant competing on a level playing field.”

— Hope Powell

“To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.”

— Howard Staunton

“PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing ... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc, they have the rights to that copy of the game.”

— Jack Tretton

“Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go.”

— Jason Dufner

“Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.”

— Eugene Fama

“Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.”

— Ron White

“I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.”

— Andrew Ferguson

“Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.”

— Jock Stein

“Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.”

— Bo Ryan

“I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.”

— Chase Utley

“Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.”

— Emily Post

“The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.”

— Jim Morrison

“Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game.”

— Joe Budden

“But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board.”

— Bear Bryant

“Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.”

— Terry Crews

“I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.”

— Frank Lampard

“I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.”

— Bill Bailey

“They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.”

— John Shelby Spong

“How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.”

— Warren Buffett

“Ma sex game is stupid, my head is the dumbest, I promise, I should be hooked on phonics.”

— Lil' Wayne

“He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.”

— Lleyton Hewitt