"Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game."
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"I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish."
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"I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!"
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"Those who play a safe game die very safely."
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"A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game."
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"We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear."
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"I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it."
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"I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility."
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"I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game."
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"I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player."
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"The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game."
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"Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing."
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"You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people."
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"Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game."
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"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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"The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone."
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"If you love the game and you love playing, just have fun and enjoy it. Work hard and don't get bogged down by it."
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"If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like."
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"No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will open doors for you."
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"I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'"
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