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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.

I am conscious of that when I make these games: I try to make a game that has beautiful open spaces, gaps, room for players to enjoy it in ways that were not authored. I never want it to be...

Quotes by Hidetaka Miyazaki

Dark Souls is in some ways an incomplete game, and I like to think that it has been completed by players, by their discoveries, as they moved along. I'd love to say that the nature of this incompleteness was completely...

Quotes by Hidetaka Miyazaki

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

Quotes by Hidetoshi Nakata

Whenever you go into a game, you want to win, and you want to come out victorious in any way.

Quotes by Hilary Knight

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that...

Quotes by Herman Cain

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

Quotes by Herb Kohl

The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys' camp fire.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

I always wanted to become a student of the game and at least get six to eight fights before coming to the UFC.

Quotes by Henry Cejudo

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Quotes by Henry Chadwick

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Quotes by Henry Chadwick

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Quotes by Henry Chadwick

You have to win every battle. Every small metre counts, and you have to win your duels. Then you will see you will win the game.

Quotes by Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Quotes by Henry Adams

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

Quotes by Helen Wills Moody

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.

Quotes by Helen Wills Moody

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.

Quotes by Hector Bellerin

You make mistakes in a game, but if you come away with a win, that's all gone.

Quotes by Hector Bellerin

Football is a game of speed and drama.

Quotes by Hector Bellerin

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

Quotes by Hector Elizondo

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.

Quotes by Hedi Slimane

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.