Posts Tagged ‘Game’

February 2nd, 2012 Athlete, Author Types, Authors, V No Comments »

Vida Blue

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
Vida Blue

It’s a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you’re surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
Vida Blue

Sometimes in this game it’s as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
Vida Blue

I keep telling myself, don’t get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
Vida Blue

 

December 27th, 2011 Actor, Author Types, Authors, P No Comments »

Peter Berg

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he’s voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
Peter Berg

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
Peter Berg

It’s always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
Peter Berg

Michael Mann’s always been one of my heroes.
Peter Berg

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I’d always be saying ‘No, less, less’.
Peter Berg

When I look back at it, I’m mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
Peter Berg

There’s a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he’s sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
Peter Berg

You might make a lot of money, but it’s very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better – and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Peter Berg

 

December 17th, 2011 Athlete, Author Types, Authors, P No Comments »

Patty Berg

It’s not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.
Patty Berg

People are what this election is all about.
Patty Berg

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Patty Berg

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.
Patty Berg

It’s a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.
Patty Berg

There is nothing in this game of golf that can’t be improved upon if you practice.
Patty Berg

 

November 24th, 2011 Athlete, Author Types, Authors, D No Comments »

Dennis Bergkamp

So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
Dennis Bergkamp

I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal’s performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.
Dennis Bergkamp

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren’t important right now. But the time will soon come.
Dennis Bergkamp

The regular things in my life now – training sessions and playing matches – will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.
Dennis Bergkamp

We’re still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.
Dennis Bergkamp

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren’t interested in the sex lives of their players. We don’t hear these stories – even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.
Dennis Bergkamp

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.
Dennis Bergkamp

When you beat a team so often – especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us – you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they’re going to be even more motivated to finally win.
Dennis Bergkamp

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
Dennis Bergkamp

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.
Dennis Bergkamp

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.
Dennis Bergkamp

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.
Dennis Bergkamp

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.
Dennis Bergkamp

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.
Dennis Bergkamp

May 4th, 2011 Actress, Author Types, Authors, J No Comments »

Jennifer Beals

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?
Jennifer Beals

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.
Jennifer Beals

Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.
Jennifer Beals

I don’t think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
Jennifer Beals

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it’s absurd.
Jennifer Beals

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don’t understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
Jennifer Beals

I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn’t remember what it is. I can’t figure it out. I know it’s a holiday. I know I don’t have a meeting. It’s very confusing.
Jennifer Beals

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it’s not likely to happen the way they are going about it.
Jennifer Beals

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game – loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren’t true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
Jennifer Beals

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren’t fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that’s to be avoided at all costs.
Jennifer Beals

I said, wouldn’t it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn’t it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.
Jennifer Beals

I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it’s much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.
Jennifer Beals

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It’s just an unstable world.
Jennifer Beals

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That’s the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
Jennifer Beals

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don’t become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.
Jennifer Beals

You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.
Jennifer Beals

I wouldn’t want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I’d want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.
Jennifer Beals

It doesn’t seem as if there’s that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.
Jennifer Beals

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
Jennifer Beals

I’m just talking specifically of women’s friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
Jennifer Beals

I’ve had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn’t really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically.
Jennifer Beals

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There’s not a lot of love going around.
Jennifer Beals

May 4th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Coach, D No Comments »

Don Baylor

I’m going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.
Don Baylor

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
Don Baylor

I know what I have to do and I plan to do it. It’s a good time to get it done and get it behind me. It’s treatable, so why not treat it now? My family will give me comfort but I have to do this alone.
Don Baylor

I’m a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there’s a time for discipline.
Don Baylor

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.
Don Baylor

It’s what you’ve been a part of for so long. I don’t think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.
Don Baylor

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
Don Baylor

April 6th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, M, Politician No Comments »

Marion Barry

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion Barry

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
Marion Barry

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
Marion Barry

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion Barry

I have to admit I didn’t do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we’re getting it done. It’s not where you’ve been but where you’re going.
Marion Barry

April 1st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, J, Politician No Comments »

John Barrow

If you never try, you’ll never know what you are capable of.
John Barrow

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.
John Barrow

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.
John Barrow

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.
John Barrow

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn’t pay the bills.
John Barrow

It’s not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
John Barrow

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
John Barrow

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn’t everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you’ve no chance.
John Barrow

March 31st, 2011 Athlete, Author Types, Authors, C No Comments »

Charles Barkley

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Charles Barkley

I’m no role model.
Charles Barkley

Somebody hits me, I’m going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn’t eaten in a while.
Charles Barkley

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.
Charles Barkley

I know that I’m never as good or bad as any single performance. I’ve never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Charles Barkley

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
Charles Barkley

Kids are great. That’s one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It’s a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
Charles Barkley

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It’s positively a dump.
Charles Barkley

I don’t care what people think. people are stupid.
Charles Barkley

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, ‘Hey, I’m rich’.
Charles Barkley

We don’t need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
Charles Barkley

You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley

I love New York City; I’ve got a gun.
Charles Barkley

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
Charles Barkley

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.
Charles Barkley

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Charles Barkley

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
Charles Barkley

December 8th, 2010 Author Types, Authors, Clergyman, L No Comments »

Leonard Bacon

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
Leonard Bacon

‘Thou shalt not get found out’ is not one of God’s commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
Leonard Bacon

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong – if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong – nothing is wrong.
Leonard Bacon