"The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport.""
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"I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to."
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"Every little thing has a purpose, at the same time, it has no purpose because this whole thing is a game. It is the existence which is total, beyond purpose. So you can say, virtually there is no purpose. If at all you have to pin down to a purpose then the purpose of nature is to take you to the Source, is to remind you of the Source, connect you to your Source."
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"Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once."
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"Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be."
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"Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious."
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"My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore."
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"We have a lot of respect and love for Bruschi. But he's gone. That's unfortunate for us, but we have to move on. Just like if I got injured they'd have to move on without me. That's just part of the game. That's reality."
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"You know the old joke, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out."
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"The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life."
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"Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific."
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"I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it."
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"Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan."
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"Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game."
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"The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played."
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"When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?"
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"Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists."
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"In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood."
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"Once again, God to all glory, because I didnt feel one thing. I didnt hurt it one time. I actually argued with my equipment staff to take it off half way through the game, because I thought I didnt need it. I was trying to tell them it was stopping me from extending, but you know what, Ive always trusted them with their advice. It was kind of important to keep it on, and for me to come out and not have a bruise, not tweak it, not do anything like that, is just really awesome."
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"Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game."
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