The Love Of The Game Quotes

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn’t happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome – it didn’t just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.

The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, “Challenge her. There’s no guarantee she’ll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges.

It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, until you lose.

I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I’m a guy that has love of the game.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

I’m a big sports guy – golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding – and I love games.

I love ‘Game of Thrones.’ That’s my favorite.

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game

Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O’Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

I’m definitely excited about roles where I get to wear cool costumes. I love Game of Thrones, and would love to do something like that. I’m totally a dork.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don’t want my love of the game to involve business.