Gracie Allen Quotes

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

Was it a game of #UCL or was Messi in a Play Station game? Impossible! If he scores 6 goals, can he take home 2 balls?

Interesting little game we play with each other.

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game.

I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.'

We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

Those who play a safe game die very safely.

The only thing I really like doing during the week is getting ready to play the game.

As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

Its a game, and that’s how I am going to treat it.

The ball is an essential part of the game.