Game Rules Quotes

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Who cares if they throw a football that has no air pressure? What does it matter? Why don't we let the quarterbacks do whatever they want to the football? I don't understand why there's any rules.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

I know the college rule is if they push you out of bounds, you can come back in and catch the ball, but I think the NFL rule is it doesn't matter how you get out of bounds, you can't be the first one to touch the ball. That's what I think it is, I'm not really sure on that.

I don't want it to be comfortable for players to step in, stroll about and walk away with three points. But there won't be any old-school flat balls, cold tea or wet floors.

Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.

I think accepting an instruction is part of a player's responsibility.

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

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

The rules - I think that's one big thing that people seem to get caught up in is that I have to know all the rules... But, one thing you have to consider as a new Dungeon Master is you do not have to know the rules like the back of your hand.

The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.

It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.