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"When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there."
"I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to get paid. If I don't feel I still enjoy the game, I can care less what a year is worth. I'm not going to play the game just because of money."
"I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago."
"All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression."
"At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area."
"This is my first summer [with] no trouble. I ain't go to jail for speeding. Didn't go to jail for DUI. I didn't break my foot. I didn't break my other foot. I'm one step ahead of the game already."
"The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps."
"One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too."
"The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing."
"If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work."
"Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules."
"Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world."
"It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well."
"I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order."
"All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules."
"A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name."
"But shouldn't we also quit marketing murder as a game?"
"Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith."
"We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take."
"I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game."
