Long Game Quotes

We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization.

Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?

The ball is round, the game is long.

I love to play Test cricket; it's the main cricket.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.

It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

This [counterterrorism] is a game of drag bunts and stolen bases, not home runs.

It's always great when games can go to day five.

The battle is long, but that's football, sport.

Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball.

For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.

People probably growing up said U.S. Open wouldn't suit me, because I'm a long hitter, I'm a bomber.

LeBron and I have always been interested in the long game.

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

Roblox's strength has always been both capitalizing on the early phase but playing the long-game as well.

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.

There's always people trying to do something to make a quick buck. But, if you plan on the long game, you can essentially guarantee success if you're willing to put in the work and if you surround yourself with the right team.