Top 1200 Mind Games Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

I hated to miss games... at the height of my career, I missed a lot of games due to... just a hamstring pull. And I hated sitting out. I just hated it. You play for your team, but you also play for the people who attend the games.

We won a lot of games, we brought play'off games to the city of Pitts'burgh, we won play'off games.

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games. I analyze when I'm on the computer, either my games or my opponents. But mostly my own.

The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

My first 10-day contract in Dallas. It was long because we had five games in 10 days. Players get called up on a 10-day and their team might only have a schedule of three games. So I got to play in five games and I was fortunate for that.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.

Touchdowns to me means that you're scoring points and helping your team win games. You can have a lot of yards and not have points and not win games. So, this only means something because it has helped our teams win games and we won the division today in a competitive AFC West, that's a good thing.

I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.

The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.

Performing for my dad does drive me on. Especially in big games, massive games.

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

I missed a few key basketball games, AAU games, because I didn't finish my homework.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.

It's definitely more important to finish games than start games.

Manu played in All-Star games, started on the bench, ran the second unit and closed games.

After three League games, we have the same number of points as last year even if we have played two away games this time round, ... As we got back on the right track last season, including making up an eight-point gap in a few games, we just need to stay calm.

Defense, for me, is where I really love to put work in most. Defense is, in my mind, what wins games.

In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.

Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

Obviously I bet on games I officiated. I passed on information based on the meetings that the referees were having, and based on what the league office wanted us to call in playoff games. With that being said, I was able to win at a high percentage when we were betting on NBA games.

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

I'm part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at the Carriage Square Mall in Oxnard, CA.

My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time.

'Minecraft' is like that, where you might say to one of your friends who doesn't play games, 'Hey, just sit down and try this with me.' There are other games you might put in front of somebody and say, 'I know you don't traditionally play games, but you've got to check this out.'

We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.

All games are huge, especially division games, and the ones at the end of the year matter the most.

I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.

... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

I love games so we always play cards and board games to relax when we're on tour.

I love unusual games, games that dare to be different and that are not based on violent actions.

Playing games is the best time of your life, and the more games you get, the better it is.

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

Now, games have been democratized. Everyone plays games.

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.

In the future, we will play games while floating naked in a tank of warm, sensory-depriving gelatin. Games will be distributed chemically, into the gelatin, and absorbed into the player's skin. The gelatin will be Lingonberry-flavored, and the games will encourage good citizenship.

You don't really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games.

You can have the big arm, and that's good, and it helps out in the games, but it doesn't help you necessarily win games.

These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.

Over the season, the games come thick and fast, and in some games, you aren't so lucky.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.

There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

Honestly, I don't play basketball games. I'm more into fighting games like 'Mortal Kombat' or RPGs.

My durability is just something I took a lot of pride in, that I was able to play 70 games over and over and over and they add up to 1,200-and-something games, plus the playoff games, plus whatever.

I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.