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  • I'm more than just a piece in their Games. -- Suzanne Collins
  • Games lubricate the body and the mind. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. -- Michael Jordan
  • Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
  • The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. -- Pierre de Coubertin
  • The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. -- Pierre de Coubertin
  • Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things. -- Hideo Kojima
  • 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. -- Michael Jordan
  • I love X-Games music. -- Jon Anderson
  • Let the Hunger Games Begin! -- Suzanne Collins
  • Games are nature's most beautiful creation -- Leonard Cohen
  • Games lubricate the body and mind. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Games are all about taking risks. -- James Altucher
  • The Hunger Games' has something for everyone. -- Natalie Dormer
  • Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. -- Pierre de Coubertin
  • Games give you a chance to excel... -- Gary Gygax
  • Games have no other purpose than to please. -- Jesse Schell
  • Games are like Rorschachs made of human relationships. -- Bernie De Koven
  • I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open. -- Shani Davis
  • I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan. -- Gillian Jacobs
  • Games are providing rewards that reality is not. -- Jane McGonigal
  • Games are the most elevated form of investigation. -- Albert Einstein
  • Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle. -- Jane McGonigal
  • Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.' -- Natalie Dormer
  • Everything is in place to have a peaceful Games. -- Jacques Rogge
  • The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming. -- Natalie Coughlin
  • Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. -- Eric Berne
  • I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games. -- Phil Foglio
  • I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.' -- Amanda Peet
  • I live more than anything else to produce the Games. -- Dick Ebersol
  • The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina. -- Mary Schmich
  • All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots. -- Margaret Weis
  • The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion. -- Pierre de Coubertin
  • Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death. -- Suzanne Collins
  • The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream. -- Kenneth Oppel
  • Sex Games: What Men Really Think About Sex Partners (Sexuality, Cheating -- Raphael Schwartz
  • Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games -- Sachin Tendulkar
  • No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does. -- Suzanne Collins
  • Games are the most social of all things on the web. -- Fred Wilson
  • Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day. -- Jesse Schell
  • Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them. -- Patrick Marleau
  • 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.' -- Mary Schmich
  • The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.' -- Mary Schmich
  • The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. -- Avery Brundage
  • The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time -- David Coleman
  • Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor. -- Suzanne Collins
  • I've got to read the 'Hunger Games' before I see the movie. -- Misty May-Treanor
  • The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. -- Pierre de Coubertin
  • You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.' -- Natalie Dormer
  • I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies. -- Rachel Gibson
  • The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports. -- Nate Holland
  • Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age. -- Cathy Davidson
  • The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit! -- Peter Travers
  • Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun" -- Suzanne Collins
  • Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. -- Suzanne Collins
  • Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. -- David Duchovny
  • This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight. -- Jim Butcher
  • I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games. -- Marion Jones
  • Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing. -- Jane McGonigal
  • It's 'The Hunger Games.' My character needs to look hungry. A little bit. -- Liam Hemsworth
  • The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. -- Bill Toomey
  • Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor. -- Hideo Kojima
  • Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them. -- Jane McGonigal
  • No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. -- W. H. Auden
  • Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink. -- John Madden
  • We had a black bear on the 'Hunger Games' set, and that was a little scary. -- Liam Hemsworth
  • The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. -- Tina Maze
  • Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field. -- Carl Deuker
  • This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me. -- Abhinav Bindra
  • The Olympic Games are a national cause, and a national cause calls for a nationwide attitude. -- Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
  • If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright. -- Yohan Blake
  • After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day. -- Jodelle Ferland
  • Im a Harry Potter fan, a Twilight fan, and I think The Hunger Games surpasses them all. -- Malese Jow
  • I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games. -- Jackie Chan
  • The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White. -- Jay Leno
  • When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself. -- Eric Shanteau
  • I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. -- Scott Hamilton
  • The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role. -- Dayo Okeniyi
  • Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo. -- Shaun White
  • Life is a game, play it. -- Mother Teresa
  • Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. -- Michael Jordan
  • We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. -- Vince Lombardi
  • If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games. -- Billy Corgan
  • There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers. -- Jane McGonigal
  • The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world. -- Stephen Hawking
  • I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. -- Ben Hogan
  • The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. -- Earl Weaver
  • That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. -- Bear Bryant
  • Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. -- Mike Singletary
  • Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun. -- PewDiePie
  • If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. -- Erma Bombeck
  • You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. -- Chris Evert
  • You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. -- Albert Einstein
  • If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose. -- Derek Jeter
  • I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes. -- Blake Shelton
  • Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain. -- Casey Stengel
  • Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. -- Dave Barry
  • 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
  • Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience. -- Jet Li
  • The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. -- Pierre de Coubertin
  • You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life. -- Paul Allen
  • There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that. -- Jane McGonigal
  • 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
  • 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
  • My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism. -- Wayne Brady
  • As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent. -- Kobe Bryant
  • It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. -- Herb Elliott
  • The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. -- Ai Weiwei
  • Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue. -- Jay Leno
  • Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. -- Larry Wilcox
  • Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. -- Andy Serkis
  • The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe. -- Vin Diesel
  • We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. -- Darell Hammond
  • I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once. -- Bob Uecker
  • Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation. -- Taufik Hidayat
  • I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!' -- Demetri Martin
  • One of the most popular games to watch on eSports is 'League of Legends,' a game that blends role-playing, managing resources and shouting at your friends. Again, if I had another thousand words, I might be able to scratch the surface of this game, but all you need to know is that gamers love to play it, and even more of them love to watch it. -- Rob Manuel
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