“If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.” IfsWantMightGamesPlayerIf I Could Author:Cesc Fabregas
“This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.” IfsThinkingWorldWantGamesSidesHalfWatchesPlayerFootballChinaManagersSoccerChairmanBrazilChelseaQatar Author:Luiz Felipe Scolari
“I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.” WantSaidWantedGamesEnjoyPlayerFootballManagersSoccerChairman Author:Jose Mourinho
“I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.” IfsWantFunnyGamesFourMountainSpotsNbaArchitectWant Me Author:LeBron James
“I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.” WantStillsI CanPlayHomeGamesSportsInterestLevelsMy FamilyFoundationProvenHigh Level Author:Alonzo Mourning
“I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.” ThinkingWantPlayOrderPassionGamesSportsLevelsRight ThingHigh Level Author:Dan Marino
“You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantYearsWellsPlayRememberGamesNamesSportsAmbitionBest Ever Author:Marcus Allen
“The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.” ThinkingKnowsWantFirstsYoungGuyGamesSportsCareersTeamSticksYoung Guys Author:Mario Lemieux
“It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.” WantGamesSportsToughAspectTough Games Author:Mark Messier
“I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.” ThinkingWantImportantGamesSportsIssuesApproachImportant ThingsFocused Author:Paul Pierce
“I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantGuyGamesSportsPlayerEdges Author:Rafael Palmeiro
“Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.” WantFirstsOpportunityGamesWinningSportsSpecialFootballMajorsFirst TimeSouthCoachesExtrasEtcDivisionBowlsCarolinaSouth Carolina Author:Steve Spurrier
“(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover.” WantFeelsTryingHardEnoughGamesWinningFiguresHugeLoversAddictionVideoCrankVideogame Author:Amy Smart
“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.” WantLittlesDoneDreamKidsGamesWinningSportsGoalMemoriesPlayerCoachesManagersHockeyLittle KidNhlGet 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.” KnowsWantSaidDonePlayGamesEmotionToo MuchPlayerNhlNhl Lockout Author:Wayne Gretzky
“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.” WayWantKidsFacesGamesTelevisionPicksBaseballBallsCamerasPantsUniforms Author:Casey Stengel
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantSometimesSeemsWould BePainGamesWinningHeavenPayFailingAtheismRight NowMiseryFortunePositive AtheismPackages Author:Gene Roddenberry
“The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.” WantFeelsChildrenGamesCryGolfPatheticInadequate Author:Craig Stadler
“I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.” IfsThinkingWantYearsEndsPlayKidsWantedLastsGamesWinningPlayerTeamChangedUltimateBaseballWorriedTigersTeam PlayerLsuI've Changed Author:Alex Bregman
“One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times.” WantFeelsGamesNiceWifeBasketballCamerasMy WifeGuiltyNbaOne TimeI SmileDunkingNice To Meet You Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.” KnowsWantTryingGamesPlansWindowBallsHeyThrownCurvesGame PlanGame Day Author:Michael B. Jordan
“It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.” WantTryingDoeActorsGamesGreat ThingsReally Great Author:Johnny Galecki
“They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an incredible amount of dignity. And by that, they are grateful for America's help in ridding them of the Taliban. The average, ordinary person is glad that their daughter can go to school now. There's no public executions, no banning of soccer games. The difference is, they're appreciative, but they don't want any prolonged military presence of the United States there.” PeopleWantPersonsCountryStatesHelpingSchoolAmericaGamesDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryAmountOrdinaryDaughterAppreciateDignityGratefulIncrediblesAverageGladSoccerAlsAfghanistanExecutionAl QaedaTalibanAppreciativeOrdinary PersonSoccer GameMilitary Presence Author:Immortal Technique
“One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsDoneGovernmentGamesLeftPoorRichStudentsBlameCorporationsTruthfulFrame Of ReferenceBlame Game Author:Robert Reich
“I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.” WantPlayRunningGamesEnergyMy FavoriteHide And Seek Author:Michael Jackson
“It's always good to be recognized being the best new cat and then when I hold down my position and stay in the game for a minute, I want to see what kind of (expletive) I'm winning then.” WantKindGamesWinningMinutesPositionCatBeing The BestExpletives Author:Wiz Khalifa
“It's humbling to know that you have fans all over America and all over the world and they want you to play on their respective basketball team. It's very humbling that they respect the way I play the game of basketball. I can't discredit that. I can't say I don't enjoy it because you put in a lot of hard work to have fans. And for me to be a role model and for me to have fans all over is great. It's very humbling.” KnowsWorldWayWantI CanHardPlayAmericaGamesEnjoyRolesTeamFansHard WorkBasketballModelsRole ModelsHumblingBasketball TeamDiscredit Author:LeBron James
“He reminds me of Michael Jordan. "You look and they have similar games where they want to lead their team to victory, no matter if they have to shoot the ball every time or if they have to rebound or pass, they're going to find a way to win." I've always said that Kobe Bryant is the best scorer in our game today and he's definitely proving himself.” IfsWayWantLooksSaidMatterTodayGamesWinningTeamVictoryProveBallsJordanRebound Author:LeBron James
“Tendulkar is a world class player and a great ambassador for the game. As a youngster I watched the games and that's where all my dreams started. You watch Tendulkar on TV and you think that I want to be like that one day” ThinkingWorldWantDreamGamesClassWatchesPlayerTvsOne DayCricketAmbassadorsYoungstersWorld ClassTendulkar Author:Graeme Smith
“Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.” PeopleIfsWantPersonsGamesFunSportsWhiteRichSacrificeAchieveFolksBe GoodTennisWorthwhileRich People Author:Arthur Ashe
“Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland. We have never been involved in a decision to annex the territory of a neighboring country, or to fight for foreign markets on distant shores. These are the games men play, not us. We want to be neither oppressors nor oppressed. The women's revolution is the final revolution of them all.” MenWantWarCountryPlayFightingGamesNamesDecisionClassGroupsRevolutionInvolvedFinalsShoreTerritoryOppressedConquestOppressorsFatherland Author:Susan Brownmiller
“Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.” WantGamesBeatsNfl Author:Jim Otto
“I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.” PeopleWantNextGamesNfl Author:Adrian Peterson
“I want to be the best player to ever play this game.” WantPlayGamesPlayerNflBeing The BestBest Players Author:Adrian Peterson
“Of course we want to win every game, but winning forever is more about realizing your potential and making yourself as good as you can be. Realizing that is a tremendous accomplishment, whether it's in football or in life.” WantCoursesGamesWinningRealizingForeverFootballAccomplishmentNfl Author:Pete Carroll
“Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who I have tons of respect for; I watch their games, I study their games, I try to learn from them. It gets you excited, but hopefully not too excited. Just focus on the game. Then when my career is done then I can look back at it.” WantTryingWellsLooksI CanDonePlayGuyGamesCareersWatchesStudyFocusExcitedHopefullyNflTomsBowlsSuper BowlBradyPeytonHopefully Not Author:Russell Wilson
“As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.” WayWantGivingChildrenCountryEnoughMotherGamesSoundFoodGive MeCookingRaisedBottomBreadMy ChildrenDesperateCulinaryStaffPotatoesBarrelsRelishPorkBread And ButterPork Barrel Author:James F. Cooper
“You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.” WayWantGamesCan DoOpinionMinutesGainsSoccerConsistentBetter WaysSprintSoccer Game Author:Abby Wambach
“Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.” ThinkingWayWantMindChildrenSometimesHandsEyeGamesIntelligentOur ChildrenYour ChildrenCoordinationSuppleLateral Thinking Author:Salman Rushdie
“One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.” PeopleWayWantI CanPlayBigsGamesDealsCreativeLessonsProjectsScrewsHeadlinesScrew UpsMovie BusinessMovie Making Author:Tucker Max
“I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.” WantTryingPlayYoungGamesEnjoyPlayerFootball Author:Lionel Messi
“When I'm in the game [softball], it's not so much mechanics. It's more of just trusting my teammates, trusting myself, trusting my preparation that we've put in to get there. When you're in the game, it's go-mode. There's going to be times when you're tweaking things but when you're in that game mode, you just want to think about that one next pitch.” ThinkingWantNextGamesPreparationMechanicTeammateSoftball Author:Jennie Finch
“Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.” IfsWantPlayHomeOrderGamesClassDemandIndependentRevengeRefugeDomain Author:Theodor Adorno
“I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.” ThinkingWantFirstsKindBookMightKidsReadingGamesFunEnjoyMoralTeachTvsMessagesVideo Author:Louis Sachar
“As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping.” WantChildrenDoeCountryGovernmentAmericaRememberGamesEffortPayDemandEconomicsIncreasePlantProductionsProductivityLatterZeroFarmersStarvingDroppingCropsBangladeshZero Sum Game Author:J. Budziszewski
“I think that when young players really see their game rise next level, it's when practices are like competition and there's no separation there. Of course, there are adrenaline and the butterflies; you don't have that so much in practice. You want to fake yourself out and try to get them there because you want to be as close to that game mentality as you can when you step on that field every single day whether it's practice or in your backyard or down the street with your dad.” ThinkingWantTryingYoungCoursesNextGamesLevelsStepsPracticePlayerStreetsFieldsDadCompetitionSeparationFakeMentalityButterflyAdrenalineBackyardsNext LevelYour Dad Author:Jennie Finch
“I don't get too upset or bent out of shape from things that go on on the field. But I think that you always want to try to keep it classy. You don't want to do any stupid fouls, and sometimes - sometimes the game gets to you; people react differently.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingSometimesGamesStupidFieldsGoes OnShapesUpsetBent Author:Carli Lloyd
“I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to play football. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, games, whatever, I'm more than happy to, but when I'm in that building, I'm being paid to play football. Conversely, when I'm not at the facility, that's my life to live.” IfsWantPlayGuyCertainGamesBuildingFootballConversationPaidMeaning Of LifeFacilityInitiate Author:Chris Kluwe
“If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.” IfsWantPlayRunningGamesBallsSpeedFaster Author:Johan Cruijff
“I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantShowsActorsGamesEasyWeekStageToughResponsibleEightBroadwayGigsDebutSissyStage Actors Author:Patti LuPone