Top 168 Mario Quotes & Sayings

I think I had 'Super Mario' and 'Tetris' around, and that's it.

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

If I can find time to play games, it's console gaming. I don't want to be plugged into my phone all the time. I'm waiting for the new Mario Kart to come out, but I've been playing Donkey Kong and Mario 3D World on the Wii U.

I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.'

What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.

After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.

A Mario Brother never says 'can't', Luigi!

I got the first Nintendo system, and me and my mother would stay up and play it together for hours and hours and hours - mainly Super Mario Brothers and Mario Kart!

I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

Like most celebrities, of course, I adore all the Mario games.

If you could do 'Mario Kart' as a really cool film I'd do that.

'Super Mario Maker' clearly is going to drive hardware. There are consumers who have always wanted to make their levels of Mario games. So that game will really speak to those consumers.

'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.

I play 'MLB 2K,' 'Madden,' and some old-school 'Mario Kart.'

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo Mario Bros.

Kids love the 'Mario Brothers' games, which are whimsical, inventive and lots of fun.

My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

I don't play racing games, unless it's 'Mario Kart.

If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.

The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.

I went from being Mario who? to Mario baby!

One of the best games to play with a significant other is Nintendo's 'Super Mario Maker,' for the Wii U, which lets you build and play your own Mario courses.

I always thought that Mario was kind of the bad guy - because if you knew about the game, there was supposed to be a back story where Mario was teasing the ape, and the ape stole his girlfriend, and this was kind of karma for Mario, you know?

We believe that creating a 'Mario' game is a special endeavor.

Should I get back to playing like the 18-year-old Mario Gotze again? I will never be the old Mario Gotze again.

Off the pitch, everyone says I and Mario Balotelli look alike, but I don't think so. A fan was waiting for a long time after a game for me. When I came out it turned out he was waiting as he thought I was Mario. He was pretty disappointed!

I don't think anybody is looking at Mario Balotelli and thinking 'I'm going to work as hard as him.'

The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in love with a princess, right? Someone who faces every challenge in life with a cheerful Wahoo! In London a bike messenger stopped me and said ‘You’re the bloke who does Mario’ on an escalator. So naturally I go ‘Wahooooo’ all the way up the stairs.

I'm not sure Mario is going to get accolafes he deserves, especially from outside the game. But from within, the players, the people who follow closely, realize exactly what he's broughtto the table, exactly what he has done. People tend to forget... hockey was dying in Pittsburgh before he got there. I played there. It was almost dead. I'm sorry, but the NHL would not have a franchise in Pittsburgh today had Mario not come along. Think about it, no hockey in Pittsburgh.

You don't always get the waterfall shortcut in Mario Kart. That's life.

I'm a massive 'Mario' fan in general.

I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros?' And I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'

Everyone needs the right partner. Mario Mandzukic is very helpful for Dybala and for Ronaldo.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.

At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.

When everybody compares me to Mario Lemieux, it's an honor.

All that matters is that you find a way to put the puck in the net. It doesn't matter how. I learned that from Mario.

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!

I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.

I'm not a big gamer, really. I used to play back in the day - 'Mario Brothers,' 'Mario Kart' and 'Mortal Kombat.'

At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.

I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!

Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.

Super Mario RPG was one of my very favorite games when I was a kid.

Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini.

Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

Mario Balotelli is undoubtedly the greatest talent of Italian football.

What's wrong with 'Mario Bros. 3?' Not a damn thing.

I love Mario Kart.

You have Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan... and Mario Lemieux. He's the best in hockey, in my opinion.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds.

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

Mario sees himself in Nintendo DS, and he feels like flying.