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“Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.”
J. D. Salinger
“Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.”
Ernest Hemingway
“No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.”
Paul Bryant
“In Louisiana we don't bet on football games, We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.”
Mark Duffy
“Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.”
Dave Bristol
“You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.”
Chris Evert
“They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?' Only from”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.”
Nikki Giovanni
“Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.”
“So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.”
Epictetus
