Brad Stevens Quotes

For me I love playing against the best players in the world, testing yourself and seeing whether you can get the better of them.

Facing a great server makes a match so much more difficult, even for the best players in the world.

We see that as 'Fortnite' evolves, it's evolving beyond being a game.

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 do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

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.'

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 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.

I just like playing the game. I don't like all the extra stuff that comes with it.

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.

The better the players you play with and against, it does improve you.

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

The majors and big events eventually bring the best players to the top so if I play well or not I always find playing the big events very motivating because it shows you where the game is at.

That's why esports is so awesome: it's just like professional sports.

I wouldn't have a career if it wasn't for the 'Fortnite' Community.

Amazon creating GameOn could be a very good introduction into competitive gaming.

For me, it's more important to bring my level up and make sure that I can compete against guys in the top 100 and top 50 instead of maybe being 120 or 130 and not being able to compete with those guys.

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 awesome to see other games picking up on battle royale, adding their unique spin to it, and advancing the state of the industry.

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.

People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well.

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.

There are so many really good players in the men's game that no one person can dominate year after year.

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

I think average players are able to play well now and again, or they'll play very, very well. Good players or great players, nine times out of ten, they have good games.