"Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious."
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"Stay in the game until the end of time."
"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
"Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top"
"Once you put in all the work pre-practice and post-practice and see it in a game and see it in play, that's a great feeling."
"War: that mad game the world so loves to play."
"It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other."
"It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense."
"In this game you only lose when you fight back"
"If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game."
"Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'"
"Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage."
"When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game."
"Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both."
"As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it."
"The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps."
"The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle."
"Life is a game, play it."
"The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It's just that simple."
"You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ."