Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.
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Related I wanted to go. I wanted to get in some game situations and face some shots. Practice shots are a lo... SCOTT CLEMMENSEN The public can see almost everything we see. Even the seismic data is exactly what's posted in our o... GAME MCGIMSEY It's always nice when you see increased seismic activity and you issue a warning that says you expec... GAME MCGIMSEY No erupting volcano in Alaska has ever been this closely monitored before. GAME MCGIMSEY We are all on a buzz right now. GAME MCGIMSEY Oh, my goodness, yes, this is what we live to see. This is our bread and butter. We study this. To s... GAME MCGIMSEY This is likely to continue for a period of a few days to a few weeks. Our consensus, based on the hi... GAME MCGIMSEY That is the best we've executed on offense all season, ... We were hot and putting down all of our s... RICHIE ADUBATO In the game of LIFE, if you focus on winning or losing, you get no where, focus on finding inner pea... GAIL MARIE MACLEAN I was a little hesitant at first but then my shots where starting to fall, so I just kept on shootin... JENNIFER RIVERA I feel like a tutor, but I'm also a student. You listen to those guys talk, you can do nothing but l... DAVE MARTINEZ I think Bobbi stopped more shots than I did if you add them all up. There were a lot of blocked shot... BRITTONY CHARTIER Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into ... PATRICK KANE Game plan is bigger than the match plan only in that sport where a lot of money is involved. ANUJ SOMANY They want to increase the popularity of the game by merely projecting a few players as a big celebri... ANUJ SOMANY Every bad game is disheartening. You screw up one game and it feels like the end of the world. I giv... LEO RADKOWSKI If you are in a game and you always win, then remerber it is not a game. VIKRANT PARSAI I know how good of a shooter I am. It's kind of frustrating. You get in and get two shots and you do... RASHAD MCCANTS We didn't get a good inside game going and if you don't get a good inside game against these guys th... ALAN DUNAHEE Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don't work on it - at least get... STEPHEN CURRY I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in ... STEVE CARELL The game dragged on because it was so hot. It was an equally matched game. COREY PINARD Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the... MICHAEL JORDAN Schwartz pitched a good game again tonight. It was nice to get on the other side of the ledger and g... ROGER JACKSON He had a whale of a game. And there weren't many shots that he took that were uncontested through th... JIM ROBERTS It really helped. The more you get into the game; you know what's going on and where people are goin... BRETT CASEY Some guys are more skaters, and the big guys know that's where they are going to score goals. You ha... ANDREW LUCIUK That way, you get them open shots. You try to get them cuts to the basket to where they get easy bas... MICHELLE SNOW One big factor was that Williams had a miraculous game. He hit some open shots, but he also hit some... BILLY TUBBS Right now any game is really big for us. And you know, there is special tension between Toronto in e... SAKU KOIVU We had a couple of balls where if they get down early instead of being caught, it's a different game... BOBBY PIERCE When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, ... JOSE ANDRES Three shots of vodka after every game. It's a must. It does the trick for me. Then after three shots... VLADIMIR KRIKUNOV Just getting back into the game and making it a game is all heart. It feels bad, though, because we ... ALLEN IVERSON We did almost nothing all week but practice how to defend their 3-pointers and get rebounds. If you ... DAN FLEMING They didn't have a strong inside game, but their outside game was good. They knew how to get open sh... LISA ABRON Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots. BEN HOGAN When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that ... GENO AURIEMMA Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots. BEN HOGAN Personally, watching it kind of makes the game ugly even though if you're a San Antonio Spurs fan yo... GEORGE KARL You take a minute to think about what exactly you did wrong and then you focus on doing better next ... DWAYNE CURTIS If you sleep on the game, the game will sleep on you. ATTICA LUNDY It's like any other game. Early on it will be a battle to see which team can get the edge, can impos... BOB BRADLEY Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the... ROSIE PEREZ When you're getting your ass kicked, you get on to game four. That's what it's about. PAT RILEY It goes hand in hand, the running game and the passing game. You try to utilize the running game all... ERIC MOULDS Can you imagine anywhere else in the United States where they had to postpone the first game, move t... SKIP BERTMAN We lost this game with no fundamentals. If we all collectively get the fundamentals down, we win thi... CARL EVERETT Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to ... CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ We were missing shots -- simple. We didn't run any plays all game. ANTYRIO RAIMER We made a gallant effort but then missed point-blank shots. But that's the nature of this game. JOE BRYANT (Westbrook) plays hard and they don't quit. This is the kind of game where you get in and you think ... GEORGE BRAUN We have to come out and play our game. You have to get good shots. There is no doubt about it. That'... CALVIN SAUNDERS The beginning of the game was pretty tough. They got a five- minute power play and then 5 on 4, 5 on... DOMINIK HASEK We were struggling before this game and I wasn't hitting my shot. I needed to hit my shots and I was... ANGELA DEHNING Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a... NORA SAKAVIC I tried to polish my whole game and be more consistent with the bat. Just get my mind right, mostly.... CHOO FREEMAN We lost that game two years ago and we don't want to have that happen again. That game is like a cha... ED TORRES It was very disjointed. They had 11 blocked shots. We haven't played in a game where the opposition ... BRAD RANDALL I got some shots early to get me involved and after that I had shots pretty continually to keep me i... DAN CLOUTIER Game development is a very hot industry right now. BRIAN WINN Our game plan was working to a tee; you let Paris score as many points as she wants and you don't le... LYNDSEY MEDDERS The end game is to get to a point where there aren't any user interfaces. JOHN WARNOCK If it wasn't for coach Smith I don't think I would be where I am now. He taught me all about the gam... ANTONIO WEBB In a game like that where the conditions are so bad, it's one of the things I fear because if you ge... JOHN CALLAHAN It was just a game where we didn't make shots. When you don't make shots regardless of what the defe... LOUIS ORR I am just trying to work and improve. I think that is the way to get to the next level, working on y... GISELA DULKO If we could make some 3s, we could make it a better game. This is the time of the season you want to... MATT FISHER When Mike goes, everything else goes. When the inside game isn't working, then it makes it harder on... ANTONIO WEBB I'm trying not to think about it, because we've got a big game in New York. Going into their home op... PAT NOONAN Any time you win a game on the road, it's huge. We wanted to get back on track with this game and we... JOE LOGAN Baseball's a game where you get to suit it up the next day. We all had to put it behind us. JEFF BUTTS Life is a game,you are told the rules,then you have to manage how to keep going by them,until the ga... FIDA YASSIN We haven't played a game yet. It's easy to say that when you haven't played a game, ... Let people s... RICH BROOKS He hit some tough shots. He was taking the ball to the hole, hitting midrange shots. He just played ... MICHAEL STINNETT Each of them have had their nights, but I'm waiting for the game when they are all three hot on the ... BRAD CHASTEEN It's frustrating to get 50 shots on goal, with just one power play, and not win the game. DEREK DAMON The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. ... AL MICHAELS We told the kids before the game that they had to answer the bell every week. If you lose one region... COURTNEY MCINNIS If we could have made some shots at the beginning of the game, it might have been different. COLE KRAFT Sometimes you get streaks in a game. Cold and hot streaks and I think we just found that streak and ... ANDREI KIRILENKO I just said we needed this game. If we win this game, do what we're supposed to do, then this game c... MARDY COLLINS We have to do a better job knowing where he is. To start the game he didn't get too many open looks,... GLEN MILLER If I was on the other side, there's no way I would have been in at the end of that game without six ... MICHAEL JORDAN I played some great shots out there and my game is getting progressively better and better. SEVE BALLESTEROS It feels good. I get nervous before every game. But once I was out there, it was the same as any oth... DESAGANA DIOP If we all did that, then there'd be no development of players and it would shrink the game. EWEN MCKENZIE That was their game plan, and it just so happened that our shots didn't fall. We tried to make adjus... GLENN TAKARA I think the complaint that the first game was short is somewhat valid, but it depends entirely on ho... DAVID PERKINSON He just hit one of those shots. You wish when you hit a shot like that you win a game rather than lo... BOB THOMASON If you have a 30-0 game in the third quarter and you flex off that game and go to a more competitive... ED GOREN It was a really slow game. If it weren't for all of the second shots that Auburn had, it wouldn't ha... DENNIS FELTON Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. EMMA WATSON I've got four seniors— all which can do a lot— but overall there's a ton of athletic ability at th... COACH REBECCA ELDREDGE It's difficult but it's certainly necessary. You never want to take yesterday's baggage into tomorro... CRAIG MACTAVISH We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team hang... DAVE ANDREYCHUK Tonight they forced us to play a perimeter game all night long and we had some spurts where we misse... RICK CORMANY If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of la... DOUGLAS TOMPKINS A lot of people are excited about (Saturday's) game. The side we control is on the court, and that's... JAMIE MAHAFFEY She (Johnson pitched a pretty good game. We didn't get a rhythm on her until late in the game and by... HEIDI MARTIN
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VANCE People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfull... J. D. VANCE In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a br... J. D. VANCE I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. J. D. SOUTHER There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think... J. D. SOUTHER I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose th... J. D. VANCE My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose... J. D. VANCE It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that ... J. D. VANCE Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse... J D GABRIEL For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou... J. D. VANCE We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordere... J. D. VANCE One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio... J. D. VANCE I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by ev... J. D. VANCE I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so fa... J. D. VANCE For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other pe... J. D. VANCE Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif... J. D. VANCE Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w... J. D. VANCE Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get ... J. D. VANCE If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ... J. D. VANCE There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the governme... J. D. VANCE