Ryan Fitzpatrick Quotes

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.

I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

I'm a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I'm travelling. Scrabble keeps me occupied, I play against myself. I have a high score of 718 that I'm always trying to beat. I'm a good player. You don't want to play me for money, that's for sure.

Man is a gaming animal.

I'm addicted - not video games, but board games.

I don't like board games.

Poker is supposed to be fun.

I think that when you talk to people about Monopoly, they love talking about their memories associated with it. And for me, I'm the same way. I mean, when I think about Monopoly, I think of my family playing at the holidays.

I create, put it out, repeat. Like, me and my friends, we play Uno and Connect Four a lot. I'm having fun, and I don't care about how many times I won or lost - I just want to keep playing the game.

I want to play as many games as possible.

When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.