49 Pinball Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous pinball quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational pinball quotes. Hopefully, these pinball quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your pinball knowledge!

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Famous Pinball Quotes

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games. — Thelonious Monk

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. — Herbert Spencer

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice. — Zoe Kazan

Snooker is just chess with balls. — Clive James

I like to play snooker, golf as well. — John Terry

Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart — Harvey Penick

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. - Douglas William Jerrold

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. — Douglas William Jerrold

Time to toss the dice — Robert Jordan

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time. — Tony Lema

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers. - Chelsea Clinton

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers. — Chelsea Clinton

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers. - Chazz Palminteri

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers. — Chazz Palminteri

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. — Elliott Chaze

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. — Juan Manuel Fangio

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. — Pete Rose

To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience. - Eugene Jarvis

To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience. — Eugene Jarvis

Short Pinball Quotes

  • If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball. — George Carlin
  • Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine. — Steve McQueen
  • I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want. — Emile Hirsch
  • I just always loved pinball. — Kevin Dillon
  • To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better. — Bill Budge
  • There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m. — Tom Hodgkinson
  • Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints. — David Louis Edelman
  • I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place. — Anne Lamott

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More Pinball Quotes

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. — Heinz R. Pagels

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. — Heinz Pagels

The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation. — Rex Hunt

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance. — Pete Townshend

The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games. — Tom Robbins

Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful. — Gaspar Noe

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball. — Nolan Bushnell

Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game. — Chip R. Bell

And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible. — Jack Spicer

My cat is completely blind. I am watching her now, sweet-pea that is, circling the kitchen floor and bumping into the kitchen chairs. She is kind of like a furry ball in a pinball machine...she bumps into something and then just turns and moves on...it makes me smile - although i know it's just not that funny. I think i laugh because what i really feel like doing, is crying — Jann Arden

Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear. — Charlaine Harris

I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s. — Ed Robertson

In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it. — Eugene Jarvis

As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite. — Iggy Azalea

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers. — Robert J. Marks II

Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake. — Jonathan Franzen

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been. — Jack Kerouac

I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course. — John C. Reilly

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