Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Strahan

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

Michael Owen

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.

Michael Owen

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

Michael Ironside

It's kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news.

Michael Ian Black

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

Michael Ian Black

Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.

Michael Ian Black

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

Michael Ballack

A leader on the pitch is someone who can turn a game in the right direction, he isn't someone who has a go at his colleagues after the match for everything they did wrong.

Randy Savage

What a great way to see all of our legacies live on, through the video games.

Randy Johnson

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

Eric Hoffer

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Eric Berne

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Emraan Hashmi

As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.

Rafael Benitez

The idea is, he goes away, plays more games and comes back a better player. If it works out like that, it will be good for the player and for the club.

Champ Bailey

You can study as much as you want, but you really don't know. This is the guy's (Nick Saban's) first NFL game so you don't know what he's going to throw at you.

Jarome Iginla

You can see that's not as good as we can play or the type of game we want to play. We're going to work to improve it. It's as simple as that.

Nick Saban

You don't have to make all of the plays as a quarterback. You have to run the offense. That is what we need to get out of our quarterback... game management.

Emmitt Smith

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

Emmitt Smith

I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

Emmitt Smith

I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.

James Chanos

What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

James Altucher

Games are all about taking risks.

Jacque Fresco

Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.

Jacque Fresco

Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project.

Henry Rollins

Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?

Henry Adams

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Hector Elizondo

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

Patricia Briggs

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

Paula Creamer

I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.

Paul Weller

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

Martin Parr

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.

LeBron James

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!