Mookie Betts Quotes

When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

It takes sometimes years in the market to get the tuning to the right place where your game is as compelling at level 100 as it was at level 10.

The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games will be. But at the same time, we have to simplify everything: the mass market has a lower attention span; they're not seeking that experience from the outset.

That's what DSi is all about: Providing simple, quick-to-master experiences that everybody can pick up and enjoy.

That's why this game is so great. It's a game of failure.

You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

I love the criticism because if there was no criticism then what can you work on and what can you get better at?

Any time you're comfortable or familiar with something, it's easier than something you're not familiar with.

Young guys in this league don't understand urgency. These guys don't understand that you never know what the league brings, the times may bring. I think they do understand what it takes to win here, and they continue to learn that.

I've added to my abilities since moving to Bournemouth. You are always having to re-learn how to be a centre-forward as the game is moving forward.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

It took me a while to learn, but we are allowed to make mistakes and have flaws.

Later in life, when my kids struggle to understand a tricky concept or master a new skill, I want them to have the strength and experience to tell themselves, 'I don't know how to do this... yet!' I want them to be confident that, even if something seems challenging today, they have what it takes to figure it out.

The people you learn most from are the audiences, which is why I'm always best on my last night.

In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.

If you apprentice yourself to the smartest people who will take you seriously, you will learn at every step. You'll learn their special language. You'll see what real people do. Your interests might surprise you. They will evolve. And you'll be well-positioned to take advantage of whatever opportunity life throws your way.

Every project I do, I learn something new.

I learn something new every game. Every game is always different, no matter how you try and think about it beforehand.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

When I'm 18 I don't get any more school time on set, so you only have a limited time to do it. You learn every day, and so I don't think of it as a chore.

You can always learn more.

I had to buy into being a better player and being able to be coached.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.