The Love Of The Game Quotes

I don’t live for glamor and I don’t care for fame, I’m in it for the love of the game

You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn’t happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

I’m a big sports guy – golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding – and I love games.

Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices. Where we might go in the future, we’ll see. Customers love games. I’m not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.

Who doesn’t love Game of Thrones? Sons of Anarchy is funny and thug-ish. I love Shameless. I just sit with my hat tipped, waiting for something to happen, more than going out after the shows.

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O’Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.

As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don’t want my love of the game to involve business.

I truly love the game; I wouldn’t be playing if I didn’t love the game. I’m not getting paid astronomical dollars; it’s truly for the love of the game of basketball.

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her.

I’m definitely excited about roles where I get to wear cool costumes. I love Game of Thrones, and would love to do something like that. I’m totally a dork.

It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, until you lose.