Board Games Quotes

If we are running sprints, I want to beat everybody by 10 yards. If we are playing checkers, I want to win: I'm pretty good at checkers, and I'm trying to get on chess.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

I don't really play a lot of games.

I want to play as many games as possible.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer.

Chess is not dominoes

I was introduced to the game by my father, Tommy, when I was 11.

I never played with anything like toys.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

Honestly, I'm living my fantasy. It's being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.

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

I remember, often, when you tell people you're doing a book about board games, they think you're totally nuts. And that might be warranted. But I feel like if we can't get the story of Monopoly right... what hope is there for anything else?

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Whether football or board games, I love to win.

I have never played a game in my life.

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.

My father has always enjoyed games... always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.

Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.

I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'

We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

I love hanging out with friends. Honestly, one of my favorite things to do is have game night. Just people coming over and hanging out and laughing and playing games.

At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication.