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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.

Along with Trump, there are few people, on either the right or the left, who would defend the system. The system is, everyone believes, broken: it's an insider's game; it's totally fixed; it serves itself. Trump codified this into a...

Quotes by Michael Wolff

If politics is a game of shrewd and knowing men, Trump has ruined it.

Quotes by Michael Wolff

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

Quotes by Michael Wolff

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do...

Quotes by Michael York

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain...

Quotes by Michael Vick

I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another.

Quotes by Michael Vick

My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.

Quotes by Michael Schultz

I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life.

Quotes by Michael Ovitz

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent...

Quotes by Michael Owen

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

Quotes by Michael Owen

I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great....

Quotes by Michael Owen

Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what...

Quotes by Michael Owen

In order for life to be more than a frustrating game of one-upsmanship, one has to remain emotionally open and vulnerable.

Quotes by Michael McDonald

I'm hooked on 'Game of Thrones.' I'm a fan of the books and the show.

Quotes by Michael McMillian

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team,...

Quotes by Michael Lewis

I was in the superhero game at the wrong time.

Quotes by Michael Landes

The Copa del Rey is a two-legged match, but it is an important game like every other.

Quotes by Michael Laudrup

Robben is more of a one-on-one individualist. He's a player who can decide a game.

Quotes by Michael Laudrup

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that...

Quotes by Michael Jordan

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Quotes by Michael Jordan

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.