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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 earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

Quotes by Graham Roberts

Every game I played was a bonus.

Quotes by Graham Roberts

I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives.

Quotes by Graham Roberts

I'm a Rangers fan and I love the club but this will be a difficult game.

Quotes by Graham Roberts

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the...

Quotes by Graham Taylor

The one thing I learnt going to Italy was there's no real change in how the game should be played, but how players look after themselves.

Quotes by Graeme Souness

You can Google how many goals a player has scored in the last few seasons, or against this particular side, but our job is to point the viewers to something that is happening in the game that they may not...

Quotes by Graeme Souness

People always have game plans to take care of Ronaldo, but very few people succeed in keeping him quiet for 90 minutes.

Quotes by Graeme Souness

Football is the most entertaining game in the world to watch because it's end to end with lots of things happening.

Quotes by Graeme Souness

I feel usually the strength of my game is my driving, and over the past - even since I was in college and everything, my short game has been the thing that's let me down.

Quotes by Graham DeLaet

My game is kind of built around hitting shots - that's what I take pride in, and it's what separates myself from other guys.

Quotes by Graham DeLaet

I never had the opportunity to pick up a golf club in school, and I think it is a cool thing for kids. Getting clubs in kids' hands is the only way to grow this game.

Quotes by Graham DeLaet

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

Quotes by Gordon Ramsay

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Quotes by Gordon Ramsay

You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people...

Quotes by Gordon Taylor

Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.

Quotes by Gordon Taylor

You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast.

Quotes by Goran Ivanisevic

There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

Quotes by Gordie Howe

It doesn't matter whether I'm in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I'm around the game, I feel at home.

Quotes by Gordie Howe

I might have some quibbles with the way the game is played today, but at its core, I know that hockey will always be hockey no matter what year the calendar reads.

Quotes by Gordie Howe

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.