168 Playing Games Quotes

Following is our list of playing games quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about done playing games.

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Famous Playing Games Quotes

Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun. — PewDiePie

Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. — Gary Gygax

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor. - Hideo Kojima

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor. — Hideo Kojima

It is better to play than do nothing. — Confucius

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

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. — Steve Wozniak

People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play. — Jensen Huang

The real excitement is playing the game. — Donald Trump

A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can't stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they're constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games. — Robert Greene

I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia. — Craig Kielburger

Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe. - Vin Diesel

Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe. — Vin Diesel

It is the best thing to have great games, and the tiredness matters little. — Antoine Griezmann

Video games are meant to be just one thing. Fun. Fun for everyone! — Satoru Iwata

Play to win, but enjoy the fun. — David Ogilvy

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. — Kristen Wilson

Short Playing Games Quotes

  • Obviously the thing that's cool about games - a basketball game is just a basketball game. — Jensen Huang
  • My work is a game, a very serious game. — M. C. Escher
  • Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. — Eric Berne
  • What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
  • What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. — Lionel Messi
  • Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play. — Patch Adams
  • You only get better by playing. — Buddy Rich
  • Whoever wants to understand much must play much. — Gottfried Benn
  • Play long-term games with long-term people. — Naval Ravikant
  • I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present. — Uwe Boll

Top 10 Playing Games Quotes

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. — Voltaire

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time — William Shakespeare

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it! — Sathya Sai Baba

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game. — LeCrae

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. — Bobby Jones

Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true — J. Cole

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. — Dianne Feinstein

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up. — John Henrik Clarke

Playing Games Image Quotes

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. - Mike Singletary quote

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. — Mike Singletary

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. - Robert Baden-Powell quote

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. — Robert Baden-Powell

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass. - Brian Clough quote

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass. — Brian Clough

Love is a game that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor quote

Love is a game that two can play and both win. — Eva Gabor

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose. - Malcolm Forbes quote

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose. — Malcolm Forbes

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. - Michael Jordan quote

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. — Michael Jordan

Life is the game that must be played. - Edwin Arlington Robinson quote

Life is the game that must be played. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way. - Antonio Davis quote

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way. — Antonio Davis

Playing games quote At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.

Stop Playing Games Quotes

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. — Leo Buscaglia

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game. — Hidetoshi Nakata

At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can cure people of an illness, other then antibiotics. If you come up with anything, stop whatever you are doing and call me. — Lynne McTaggart

Playing games quote You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. — Richard M. Nixon

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game. — Stephen Covey

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. — Jim Abbott

Playing games quote Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play. — Sayings

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing. — Satchel Paige

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy. — Lionel Messi

I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game. — Paul Pierce

Done Playing Games Quotes

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg. — Bobby Robson

Men automatically know from the moment she opens her mouth that if they want her, they'll have to get in line whith her standards and requirments, or keep it moving because she's done with the games and isn't interested in playing. — Steve Harvey

There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy... All you need is love. — John Lennon

Playing games quote Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field. — Albert Pujols

I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet. — Karl Malone

I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually, one day, you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.' — Sean Taylor

Playing games quote We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry! — Robert Louis Stevenson

I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games. — Sayings

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in. — Henry Miller

I'm still kind of nerdy about video games, but I've had to take a little bit of a step back. I was really not getting a lot of things done in life because I was playing so much Destiny. I loved it, but I've gotta prioritize. — Zachary Levi

Not Playing Games Quotes

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. — Pele

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else. — Janis Joplin

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society. — Pedro Arrupe

Playing games quote Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes difference.
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes difference.

God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen." — Hafez

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending. — Bobby Fischer

Playing games quote I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.

He played a near-perfect game, but to him, not perfect enough. — Tim Grover

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. — Lionel Messi

Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose. — T. Harv Eker

In the game of life, it’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game that counts. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan

Tired Of Playing Games Quotes

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. — Shaquille O'Neal

I think LeBron asked out of the game once or twice before that, so we knew he was getting tired but we were all getting tired out there. ... I don't think I've played in anything like this since I left the islands. — Tim Duncan

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Playing games quote It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself. — Drea De Matteo

The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick. — Jaromir Jagr

The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves. — Steven Biko

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep. — Henry Ward Beecher

People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set. — Bruce Nash

Guys Playing Games Quotes

I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this – like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be. — Kevin Durant

Apart from Arsenal and Barcelona, I don't see myself playing anywhere else. I will definitely be going back (to Arsenal) whenever I have time to watch games and to see the guys… and if there is one place to go back to (to play), it is Arsenal for sure. — Cesc Fabregas

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope. — Gabe Newell

Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes. — Rickson Gracie

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win. — Chuck Bednarik

I'm not going to play a racial game. With me, you're going to meet a guy named Shelby Steele, and you will have to get to know me as an individual. The color of my skin won't tell you anything. I think there's more and more of that in America. — Shelby Steele

I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else. — Gary Gygax

The game was much like our season. This game tested our toughness, our resilience, our unselfishness. It's only fitting that it turned out this way. This is a great bunch of guys to play with. I feel very, very grateful. — Peyton Manning

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career. — Mario Lemieux

If I had a bad game and we lost I take it very seriously. I feel if I play a good game that other guys will follow and that will help us win more games. And if I don't, I take it upon myself as being my fault. — Jeremy Roenick

Mind Playing Games Quotes

Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet. — Virginia Axline

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games. — Zayn Malik

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. — Reid Hoffman

The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them. — Sayings

Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind. — Viswanathan Anand

Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve. — Gangaji

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo. — Kristin Linklater

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it. — Mother Teresa

God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaking things up and then rebuilding them, and yet he can manage to put his mind even to a little grocer in his shop or to a babe in the cradle. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. — Thomas Jefferson

Woman Playing Games Quotes

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued. — Helen Fisher

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game. — Cammi Granato

She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs. Alexia liked her immediately. — Gail Carriger

What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No! — David LaChapelle

I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward. — Benjamin Guggenheim

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect. — Shirley Manson

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump. — Helen Rowland

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game. — Neil Young

They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat. — Bobby Fischer

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun. — Chuck Palahniuk

Man Playing Games Quotes

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par. — Bobby Jones

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. — John Bentley

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life. — Brooks Robinson

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them. — Casey Stengel

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. — Eamon de Valera

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' — Jack White

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella

Whips and chains, handcuffs, smack a little body up with my belt. Scream, help play my game, dracula man, I'll get my fangs. — Ludacris

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden

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. — Huey Newton

Friends Playing Games Quotes

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. — Wentworth Miller

Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up. — Patrick Rothfuss

In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was. — Daniel Negreanu

Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you. — Wil Wheaton

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. — Arthur Rubinstein

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. — Ben Hogan

I'm lucky to be doing what I love, and I appreciate that I can make a good living doing it. I love to play soccer-whether it's in a game, practice or playing with friends-so it isn't like I'm under pressure at all. — Landon Donovan

I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly. — Uwe Boll

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends. — Ian Rankin

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games. — Ben Hogan

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More Playing Games Quotes

It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' It's also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do. — Stephen Curry

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. — Donald Woods Winnicott

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it. — Barack Obama

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play. — Bill Russell

I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last. — Allen Iverson

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. — Donald Trump

This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards

There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair. — Ida Tarbell

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless. — Magnus Carlsen

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed. — Kanye West

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis

I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game. — Don Rickles

I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of. — Alexander Fleming

Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game. — Nick Saban

A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it? — Jeanette Winterson

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game. — Tom Landry

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life. — Mickey Mantle

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. — Henry David Thoreau

I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. — Les Miles

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