Andy Roddick Quotes

While the Super Bowl still smashes records for butts in the seats, eSports often run longer and never blinks. There's no commercial break. There's no halftime show. From start to finish, someone is going to walk home a champion, and you don't want to miss a second of it.

I'm good but not great at 'Madden'. I have friends that their whole life is based around this video game.

I have learned from experience with the BDO and the ladies tournament.

I'm big into video games, and when I joined FAZE clan, they're big into streaming. And they're streaming every day, like, six, seven hours a day.

Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate.

I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want to read as much about it as you can, see it live and watch as many games as you can. If you're the type who wants to be as involved as you can in the sport, you're probably going to want to play 'Madden NFL.'

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

When you love the competition, the opportunity to achieve at simple but challenging games, some people are really into it, and I'm one of them.

I'm a think gamer with twitch tendencies.

I get asked constantly, what's Nintendo's approach to the esports community. And our approach is we want to enable consistent standards. We want to enable an approach to the competition that's fair, that's balanced, that enables the players to showcase their skills.

Competing and streaming 'Fortnite' all night at the most iconic building in Chicago, a city close to my heart, is a dream come true.

PAX is not a show about retailers, not a show about journalists. It's about players.

Games have gotten so big and interesting that they've moved beyond the toy/entertainment space. It's not just a diversion from their regular lives; for a lot of people, it becomes an important part of their lives.

For me, I have a bunch of friends back home in Canada who play online all the time - so we get mic'd up, join the same party, and just play. We are good enough to compete with 'Call of Duty' pros, so, the competition is what keeps bringing me back.

It's good to have a game like 'Call Of Duty' because it's really competitive, and everybody wants to be the best at it.

To allow our audiences to watch more professionally produced video content, we acquired Major League Gaming - MLG - and we expect MLG to become the 'ESPN of Videogames' with a focus on the celebration of gamers, both amateur and professionals.

I'm a big gamer, so I love my PlayStation to switch off from triathlon.

I always played 'FIFA' and stuff like that growing up, and seeing those guys celebrate, I kind of got inspiration from that.

Professional gaming competitions are creating celebrities who are recognized and revered as athletes were in prior generations. Spectator gaming is becoming as popular as mainstream sports.

When we created Overwatch at Blizzard, it was always with the expectation that we would be able to celebrate and recognize our players in a way that would be consistent with traditional sports.

I love watching professionals play more than I love sitting there 20 hours a day trying be a pro myself.

I'll take a couple of breaks for some food, but other than that, that's pretty much all I do is play videogames and practice with my team.

I loved playing with friends and talking trash over 'FIFA' and 'Mario Kart.' Then, in the early stages of my professional career, I got into 'Assassin's Creed' and 'The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.'