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The Great Game Quotes & Sayings

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The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game. — Rick Pitino

I like to have a good time. I'm playing a great game, so why should I stop smiling when I get on the field? — Jim Edmonds

When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He sees not what you lost or won, but how you played the game! — A.A. Khan

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. — John Wooden

In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation. — Raymond E. Feist

The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media. — Alexei Shirov

Now I shall go far and far into the North,
playing the Great Game — Rudyard Kipling

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess. — Annie Lennox

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. — Ernest Hemingway,

The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night. — George R R Martin

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life — George R R Martin

I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game. — Molly Sims

Story may not be a great addition to some games - games where action is the whole reason for the game to exist. — Jane Jensen

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. — Grantland Rice

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel. — Magic Johnson

Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win. — Deion Sanders

Boeing does a great job in introducing product that kind of changes the game. — Louis R. Chenevert

Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found. — Richelle E. Goodrich

It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing. — Patrick Kane

The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game. — Wim Crouwel

I'm still playing the game, having a great time. — Jason Giambi

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly — Irving Chernev

There is a hand behind every curtain,' " she quoted. " 'And a knife in every hand,' " finished Mara. — Raymond E. Feist

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game. — Bobby Fischer

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories. — Joe Sakic

Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here. — Eddie Murray

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game. — Adam Lambert

After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me. — Joe Sakic

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. — Alice Cooper

I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important. — Pancho Gonzales

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own. — Joe Paterno

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day. — Michael Chabon

Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons. — Raymond E. Feist

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness. — Eugene O'Neill

As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get. — Kenneth Bock

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game. — John McEnroe

Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way. — Matt Kuchar

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'. — Raymond E. Feist

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time. — Mike Pesca

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is. — Bernhard Langer

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. — Walt Whitman

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it. — Bill Terry

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now. — Holly Johnson

He is such a great player that he has the capabilities to let no one affect his game.
(on David Beckham) — Steve McClaren

A lot of things seem one way but are another. And how a thing seems is often just the game we play to save ourselves from great, panicking pain. — Richard Ford

The human currency of praise is Monopoly money. It feels great for a moment to collect, but when the game is over, it's worthless. — Yasmin Mogahed

You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game. — Bernhard Langer

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart. — Dennis Rodman

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes. — Gene Littler

Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father. — Barbara Demick

To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first. — Mark Lawrenson

Sometimes, when things look terrible ... you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great. — Walter Dean Myers

Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game. — Billy Martin

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great — Benjamin Franklin

You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones. — Mac O'Grady

Hockey would be a great game ... if played in the mud. — Jimmy Cannon

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall. — George R R Martin

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one. — Red Barber

Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble. — Mike Epps

Great entrepreneurs are never out of the game for long. They slip many times, but they don't fall. — Ryan Holiday

I've told the guys to keep their heads up. I really believe we played a great game here. — Ricky Ponting

The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful. — William J. Clinton

After a great game or a great practice, man, I feel on top of the world. — Josh Freeman

When you ask a girl out and she suggest a bar, you're answer shouldn't be great, I like that bar and they'll have the Rockets game on too. — Iliza Shlesinger

It's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense. — Mike Candrea

It was great to do and it's exciting to do those things. That's another thing, that one enjoys the game. — Albert Finney

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions. — David Halberstam

To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game. — Amar'e Stoudemire

And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game. — Nolan Ryan

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones. — George R R Martin

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. — Ty Cobb

Don't worry about it, Mikey," Dee said comfortingly. "You'll probably be next, so you won't be here when our Great Deception comes crashing down. — L.J.Smith

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. — Cleopatra

The great game of life is not about money; it is about doing your best to join the battle to build anew our communities, our nation, and our world. — Jack Bogle