Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
Steven Wright

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
Sai Baba

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

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 guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Soren Kierkegaard

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Jackie Robinson

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
Jackie Robinson

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck Palahniuk

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
Leo Durocher

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
Leo Durocher

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
Leo Durocher

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot