Top 1200 Back In The Game Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

You know how hard it is to play the game from game to game, at-bat to at-bat, so many things can change.

When I started playing hockey, I realised the entire game relies on your back- you have to bend to play it.

I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby's just a game.

The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve every day, every drill, even every contact. The beach game is much more of an individual game within a team sport, much less about organized practices with coaches and much more about just playing the game.

People talk about Kobe's 81-point game, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history. I saw the game. I don't care if it was 79, 81 - I just remember the game. I remember the moves. I remember the shots. I remember the beauty of it. The numbers? What he shot from the field? I don't care.

It's sad that Walter Payton was not known as the greatest running back to play the game until they won the Super Bowl.

It's always a fun game to go back and guess what long-past people would think.

Every game is challenging and sometimes things don't go well for you but you need to be able to come back and carry on fighting.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

I miss the combative back and forth, strategic elements of the game on Sunday. Making the adjustments, and what you've prepared for all week all of a sudden isn't there.

Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

In Little League back in Oklahoma, I struck out 14 batters in a six-inning game, and we won the state championship.

I just worry about every year trying to add something to my game, come back a better player.

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.

I love the preparation, the excitement of game day, the nervousness of game day. But I enjoy the day-to-day stuff. Game day is a great day but I enjoy Mondays and Tuesdays, watching yourself on film, watching the next opponent, getting the game plan.

If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

I wouldn't trade my life with anybody else. I played during the golden day of baseball, back when it was a game and when it was fun.

In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

I played eight years without really being hurt seriously and hadn't had to deal with that part of the game. So, to get hurt and to have to miss games, that part of it was very hard. And so when I came back and somebody else had my job and I couldn't get it back. You know that was hard.

The Thursday night game is by far the most difficult game to prepare for. You can't get into as much depth as you normally would in your game plan because you just don't have the time. You've got to jump right into the next opponent.

'Game Never Ending' came out of an earlier game called 'NeoPets,' a children's game that adults also played. It was a series of mini-games where you accrue points and can acquire objects - houses and all kinds of stuff.

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

When you're a rookie, the game moves a 1000 miles per hour. But each year, you get more mature, the game slows down for you, and that's when you realize you're getting better at belonging. When you know where to go and where to be, that's when the game is coming a little easier to you.

In the playoffs, it's win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, 'Man, we didn't box out here.'

You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.

At seven, I played centre-back. When you're so young, though, it's more to enjoy the training and to get a feel for the game. It's not heavy on tactics of a position. We were playing on a half pitch, seven against seven or eight against eight, so they say you're a centre-back, but it's not like the real definition.

Any time you add something to your game, you still have to find ways to improve, so I'm still studying the game and trying to find out ways to increase how we use me on the floor. You're not being complacent, not falling back and floating around the perimeter too much, figuring out when to attack. I'm trying to find that balance between attacking and spotting up and things like that.

Instant replay ought to be thrown out. Period. It's a game of imperfections. Why is that so bad for the game? Really, I think they are trying to make the game perfect. I'll tell you what: It will never, ever be perfect.

It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win. I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game... I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer's table. Ugly people call ugly games.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

It's hard to put your shoulders back and say, 'right lads, let's win this game,' when we're not actually winning anything.

It is an important part of the role of a centre-back to focus on building up the game and initiating moves.

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

At Liverpool, when warmed up, we enter the game or after 15 minutes go back to the bench.

You don't just turn up and have a passing game. You can't sit back, you have to be 100 percent concentrated to make it work.

It's hard being a woman in the hip-hop game, but I'm lucky to have good people around me who have had my back.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back.

I'd say 230 yards off the tee is my average. Short game is a strength. I don't three-putt often. Actually, I'd say my mental game is probably the best. I'm very good at staying positive and focused on my game.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

He loves the game. He gave it everything he had. What I really admire, though, is he said to me, 'Dad, I just couldn't keep doing it.' That cycle of injury, rehab, injury, rehab just got too much. He didn't want to stick around and begin to resent the game. He wanted to leave the game and still love the game. That's pretty impressive.

We've got to get the public back into watching Test matches - speeding up the game with innovation is one way forward.

There are a lot of good racquetball players out there, but playing the game and knowing the game are two different things. Because I had no direction, I had to feel the game.

Selling five million units in less than 14 months means DS is the fastest among any game machines ever launched in Japan to hit that level. To achieve this rapid growth, we were required not only to go after frequent game players, but to reel back people who had left games and to make video games enjoyable for those who had not played games at all.

Basketball is a beautiful game and it's afforded all of us in this profession so many things. To give back any time we can is gratifying.

The advantage of not starting is you're sitting back, looking at the game and saying, 'OK, we need rebounding,' or 'We need hustle points.' Coming off the bench, that's what you try to do. The disadvantage of it is you gotta catch that flow. You're coming off the bench, you gotta come ready, warmed up already, catch the flow of the game.

If I look back, I can feel proud of the things I've won in the game, of everything I have achieved. I would like to say thank you to the fans.