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“If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.”

Ifs Play Bigs Games Atheism Positive Atheism Working It

Author:Marjoe Gortner

“I don't think anything in my game has regressed in the last couple years. I think I've only gotten better. I keep wanting to assume more responsibility in all parts of the rink.”

Thinking Years Lasts Games Responsibility Couple Assuming Nhl Blackhawks

Author:Jonathan Toews

“We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.”

Knows Stills Facts Bigs Today Games Sports Player Happenings Aspect Stupidity Despite Nhl Concussions Sports In General

Author:Jeremy Roenick

“It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.”

Kind Light Games Consequence Blow Nhl Concussions

Author:Ken Dryden

“There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.”

Want Littles Done Dream Kids Games Winning Sports Goal Memories Player Coaches Managers Hockey Little Kid Nhl Get It Done

Author:Mike Babcock

“When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much.”

Knows Want Said Done Play Games Emotion Too Much Player Nhl Nhl Lockout

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“It's only game. Why you have to be mad?”

Games Mad Hockey Nhl

Author:Ilya Bryzgalov

“I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.”

Knows Giving Littles Guy Games Lost Bits Havens Little Bit Hockey Pretending Nhl Lockers Pep Pep Talk

Author:Tom McVie

“In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.”

Littles Games Energy Lost Cases Struggle Losing Shining Mysticism Manipulation Wraps Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.”

Way Want Kids Faces Games Television Picks Baseball Balls Cameras Pants Uniforms

Author:Casey Stengel

“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.”

Men Looks Play Games Baseball Every Man Plenty Look Up Up And Down Benches There Comes A Time

Author:Casey Stengel

“They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.”

Hard Girl Games Easy Golf Athlete Good Athlete

Author:Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.”

Way I Can Play Games Safe Shots Golf One Way Play Safe

Author:Bobby Jones

“Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.”

Stills Sometimes Hands Games Emotion Golf Clubs

Author:Bobby Jones

“The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.”

Ifs Wells Littles Play Games Golf Rewards Etiquette

Author:Bobby Jones

“I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.”

Made Games Forget Baseball Never Forget

Author:Don Larsen

“In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.”

Real Home Running Next Games Winning Boys Baseball Mad Hitting Next Day Headlines Home Run

Author:Mickey Mantle

“Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.”

Bigs Jobs Games Perfect Baseball Fellows Accomplishment Tape Big Things Flukes Great Accomplishment

Author:Gabe Paul

“I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.”

Enough Games Chance Late Losing Baseball Balls Mad Take A Chance Ball Games Mad At Him

Author:Casey Stengel

“He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.”

Doe Games Baseball Symbols

Author:Bob Costas

“Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'”

Ifs Believe Matter Games Winning Basketball Don't Believe Drunk Beer

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“It's sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn't. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don't. When I come back, we'll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.”

Thinking Needs Believe Said Done Kids Guy Games Winning Steps Needed Right Now Basketball Step Up Karate

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're supposed to take your kids to the zoo. You're a father. So a team like that, we're supposed to beat them like this.”

Should Kids Father Games Winning Team Proud Basketball Beats Be Proud Zoos

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game.”

Ifs Mean Doe Games Winning Basketball Seasons Extras Championship Cheated

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.”

Ifs Persons Reason Happens Able Games Lines Basketball Humble Things Happen Arrogant Everything Happens For A Reason Happens For A Reason Free Throw Arrogant Person

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all.”

Might Games Couple Basketball Series Working It Now And Then Championship Proven Millennium Hacks Playoffs Free Throw Shaq

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“That game was dedicated to Rick Adelman. I'm at home, in the bathroom, trying to take a dump, flipping through the channels and he's complaining (on TV) about how I'm stepping over the line. I can't even do a No. 2 in peace. I'm sitting there grunting at 12:30 at night. Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?”

Trying I Can Home Night Games Lines Tvs One Day Basketball Sitting Negative Complaining Dedicated Bathroom Dump Free Throw

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.”

“I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.”

Years Play Running Games Sports Athlete Jumping

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.”

People Ifs Knows Want Sometimes Seems Would Be Pain Games Winning Heaven Pay Failing Atheism Right Now Misery Fortune Positive Atheism Packages

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.”

Games Atheism Tradition Positive Atheism Scripture Objectives Irrelevant Infallible Unbroken Apostolic Truth Of God Objective Truth

Book:Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity

Source: Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity

“It was a great Olympics - Team USA finished the games with 17 more medals than China. China said it was tough to swallow - especially when they had to make all of our "We're #1" T-shirts.”

Said Funny Games Team Tough China Finished Shirts Usa Olympics T Shirt Medal London Olympics

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.”

Knows Firsts Funny Games White Flames Do You Know Olympics Lit Olympic Games London Olympics

Author:Jay Leno

“Even though the Olympics take place during Ramadan, some Muslim athletes said they will not fast during games. Then, after sampling the British food, they said, on second thought, fasting sounds good.”

Said Funny Games Sound Athlete British Olympics They Said Fasting Second Thoughts Ramadan London Olympics Sampling

Author:Conan O'Brien

“In the spirit of the Olympic Games, they traditionally ask that all fighting and warfare around the world stop. So, there's hope for a ceasefire within the Jackson family.”

World Funny Spirit Fighting Asks Games Around The World Warfare Olympics Olympic Games London Olympics Ceasefire

Author:Jay Leno

“A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.”

“There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.”

Years Persons Ideas Games Sports Balls Golf Improvement Score Bizarre Golfers

Author:Fred Couples

“Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee.”

Beautiful Games Golf Bob Tees

Author:Jimmy Demaret

“From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.”

Has Beens Games Golf Sake Gentleman Contests

Author:Tony Lema

“My game is like a cross between karaoke and rap: crap.”

Games Crosses Golf Rap Crap Karaoke

Author:Nick Faldo

“I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.”

Firsts Long Seems Lasts Games Golf Scared Valleys Tees

Author:J. C. Snead

“It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.”

Years Firsts Might Three Games Stage Six Golf Starting Three Years Golfers Unlearn

Author:Walter Hagen

“The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.”

Want Feels Children Games Cry Golf Pathetic Inadequate

Author:Craig Stadler

“Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.”

Thinking Next Games Lost Keys Shots Golf Nine Staying Golfers Messed Up

Author:Paul Azinger

“Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt.”

Games Sports Dog Eating Balls Hot Golf Complicated Shirts Exception Hitting Sophisticated Hot Dog Mustard Ball Games Golf Ball

Author:Ray Fitzgerald

“I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.”

Thinking Years Turns Games Sleep Havens Golf Bloody Toss

Author:Colin Montgomerie

“If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.”

Ifs Fighting Games Golf Prize Golf Game

Author:Bob Hope

“I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.”

Fall Games Blood Tough Golf Psychological Barrels Niagara Niagara Falls

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.”

Needs Remember Games Memories Forget Shots Golf Fantastic Short Memory

Author:Mac O'Grady

“Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.”

Men Humans Play Facts Games Human Nature Golf Arena Limitless Fascination Accounting

Author:Herbert Wind

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