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Game Quotes

From the golf course to the chessboard.

This page uses "game" loosely — from a famously dismissive take on golf as a waste of effort, to praise for the creativity found in game development compared with feature filmmaking. If gaming culture specifically interests you, see Games quotes.

You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

Quotes by Jacob deGrom

My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.

Quotes by Jacob deGrom

I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to...

Quotes by Jacob deGrom

The control game has just been changed. The artist has a lot more control than the label, which is special. I feel like the fans crave that. I feel like they can tell when it's not genuine.

Quotes by Jacob Whitesides

Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off...

Quotes by Jackson Katz

I hadn't watched 'Lord of the Rings' - I'm gonna get so much flack for this, but I hadn't watched 'Lord of the Rings' when I started watching 'Game of Thrones.'

Quotes by Jacob Anderson

Nothing goes through your head when you're playing except who you are playing against and what you can do to affect the game.

Quotes by Jack Wilshere

The emotions of the game do not change.

Quotes by Jack Youngblood

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

Quotes by Jackie Robinson

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Quotes by Jackie Robinson

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Quotes by Jackie Robinson

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference...

Quotes by Jackie Robinson

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of...

Quotes by Jackie Robinson

Democrats, more often than not, do not play the game of politics correctly.

Quotes by Jack Schlossberg

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

The game is meant to be fun.

Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Quotes by Jack Nicklaus

Frequently Asked Questions

What different meanings of "game" show up on this page?
Quite a few - from golf as a literal outdoor game, to video game development and its creative merit, to a chess metaphor used to describe the strategic and inevitable loss of a war.
Is there a quote critical of golf?
Yes, one quote calls golf "the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man" - a pointed, unflattering take on the sport.
Are there quotes about video game development?
Yes, two of them. One argues that game makers show just as much creativity as feature filmmakers, if not more. Another notes a certain arrogance among "Hollywood" types that doesn't sit well with game developers. For more from that world, see the Gamer and Games pages.
Is there a quote that uses a game as a metaphor for something bigger?
Yes - one quote compares Germany's position in a war to "an end game in chess," where the loss was as certain as losing a chess endgame from a weaker position. For more strategic framing like this, check out the Game Plan page.
Is there anything here for fans of games as entertainment or fandom?
These particular quotes focus more on golf, war strategy, and game development than franchises, but if that's what you're after, the Game Of Thrones page is a good next stop.

There's also a striking historical metaphor here, comparing a losing military position to an endgame in chess where the outcome is already decided. For competitive framing elsewhere, try Game Plan quotes or Gamer quotes.