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When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much. — Wayne Gretzky

I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball. — Pete Rose

People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive. — John Higgins

The sad fact of life: Winners love the game. Losers don't. — The Wombat

I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game. — Patrick Kane

The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand. — Robert Breault

The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach. — Bobby Orr

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play. — Rickey Henderson

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions. — Marya Mannes

Play the game of peace, not the war.
Play, not with gun, but with laughter. — Debasish Mridha

Love is not some kind of a game, it is special and should be taken care of because it's the only thing that accepts you for who you are. — Nathania Gutierrez

In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show. — Nathalie Emmanuel

Love is the death of duty. — George R R Martin

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special. — Tiger Woods

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool. — Bill Shankly

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game. — Bernard Malamud

People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game. — Hope Solo

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game. — Dennis Rodman

To me, throwback means I'm a smart player. I know how to play the game. I'm very skilled. I do a lot of things that other people don't do. — Kevin Love

I love hitting-that's my favorite part of the game. — Adrian Beltre

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game. — Chuck Bednarik

I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility. — Cal Ripken Jr.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. — Rex Stout

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game. — Milan Kundera

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game. — Bert Blyleven

I'd like for y'all to meet the love of my life, her name's the game. — Drake

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game. — Rabih Alameddine

Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it. — Roger Clemens

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase. — Michael Ashcroft

The fans of 'Game of Thrones' are dedicated. It's really nice to talk to them, why they love the show and what it means to them. It's a real pleasure. — Isaac Hempstead-Wright

Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played. — Terry Pratchett

Love is a game
of tic-tac-toe,
constantly waiting
for the next x or o. — Lang Leav

The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game — Rachel Cohn

Shades of the rich ruby love she'd felt during the game mixed with hues of deep-indigo hurt, turning everything just a little bit violet. — Stephanie Garber

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. — Leslie Fiedler

It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love - they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds. — Louise Erickson

Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game. — Tiger Woods

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have. — Tom Watson

I love pool because it's a game of strategy, a game of the eye, and your whole universe is like this. I really want to become a pool shark. — Peggy Lipton

The love game is never called off on account of darkness — Thomas L. Masson

I don't live for glamor and I don't care for fame, I'm in it for the love of the game — Jay Sean

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you. — Babe Ruth

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates. — Michael Powers

I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically. — Joe Mauer

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that — Julia Cameron

True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding. — Meher Baba

I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat. — Paul Pierce

Needing and getting don't always go together. — Rachel Spangler

Love and death are everything, Jenny. Danger is the best part of the game. I thought you knew that.
-Julian — L.J.Smith

Two of my boys are Manchester United fans; one is an Arsenal fan. Whenever there is a game I can take the boys to, I love taking them. — David Beckham

I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way. — Adam Yauch

With my beloved I play the game of love .
If I win, he is mine. If I lose I am his... — Amir Khusro

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. — Thomas Carlyle

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it. — Lamar Odom

The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated. — Marty Rubin

And the game of basketball, I play, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court. — Kevin Durant

Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time? — Rachel Spangler

For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for. — Cassandra Golds

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness. — Gene Fowler

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners. — Mason Cooley

Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. — John Bentley

No matter what's going on in life, I can emerge myself into a game and I love it. Outside of my family, it's the love of my life. — Casey Stoney

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves. — Eugene O'Neill

I love to play the game of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game. — Joel Kinnaman

I uttered his name like a silent whisper of the falling rain - saying love is his game as the cool breeze sets in.- Elizabeth's Shorter Poems — Elizabeth E. Castillo

For me the game of love is much like hunting a man on foot with a knife. It's not over until the blade is clean. — Vladimir Putin

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. — George Vecsey

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Seeing one face continually in crowds is one of the minor annoyances of being in love. — Elizabeth Taylor

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform. — Stan Musial

Play the game of life as if you have nothing to lose, no attachment. — Jay Woodman

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business. — Garth Brooks

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. — Helen Wills Moody

Life is an amazingly mysterious and interesting game. To win, you have to play with the magical powers of love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game. — Philip Roth

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup. — Alisher Usmanov

I love the game of baseball. — Nomar Garciaparra

Find friends and not lovers; you will win the game of life. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens. — Ruskin Bond