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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 was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My...

Quotes by Penny Marshall

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.

Quotes by Peggy Lipton

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Quotes by Pele

The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

Quotes by Pele

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

Quotes by Pedro Martinez

The game doesn't change.

Quotes by Pedro Martinez

The only thing that being killed off on 'Graceland' helped me with on 'Game of Thrones' is that it made me available to actually do the job.

Quotes by Pedro Pascal

I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.

Quotes by Pedro Pascal

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

Quotes by Payne Stewart

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

Quotes by Payne Stewart

I don't really have the desire, as far as love of the game. It's more about the paycheck I can make.

Quotes by Paulie Malignaggi

I've always loved movies and loved the idea of playing make-believe. That was my favorite game, growing up as a child, was make-believe, and to be able to do it as an adult is awesome.

Quotes by Paula Patton

Twitter is really - I got very addicted to it just because it's so simple, and it's like a video game for comedy writers to just do a one-liner about something.

Quotes by Paula Pell

I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.

Quotes by Paula Radcliffe

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

Quotes by Paula Creamer

My main goal is to be the No. 1 American and the No. 1 player in the world. If an American is on top of the leader board every week, it will bring more people into the game of golf.

Quotes by Paula Creamer

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

Quotes by Paula Creamer

I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.

Quotes by Paula Creamer

I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!

Quotes by Paula Creamer

There's another game that Capcom, who make 'Resident Evil,' have created called 'Monster Hunter,' which is these amazing, amazing creatures in these fantastical realms, I'm very excited about that.

Quotes by Paul W. S. Anderson

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.