Mario Quotes

The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.

Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling.

Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.

When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

Growing up, I played 'Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball' and just whatever I could get my hands on. When I was really young, I was a big fan of Mario and that type of stuff. I still play videogames now, so it was really cool for me to be able to play as myself on '2K6' or '2K7,' I believe it was, when I was a rookie.

I always thought that Mario was kind of the bad guy - because if you knew about the game, there was supposed to be a back story where Mario was teasing the ape, and the ape stole his girlfriend, and this was kind of karma for Mario, you know?

I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds.

I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.

I've never actually played a Zelda game. I've played other N64 games, like Goldeneye, Mario Kart, they were my favourites.

A thug in a Congressman's suit.

I'll play anything Mario- or Zelda-related, but Fortnite is one step beyond me. I don't get anything from it but motion sickness and an increased sense of anxiety about how violent future generations are going to be.

If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.

'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.

Mario sees himself in Nintendo DS, and he feels like flying.

We believe that creating a 'Mario' game is a special endeavor.

I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong.

Nintendo has an enviable position of having the best franchises in this industry in terms of 'Mario' and 'Zelda' and 'Metroid' and 'Donkey Kong' and all of those great franchises. Together, those are a library that any developer would kill for.

I used to subscribe to Nintendo Power. The first issue had 'Mario 2,' and it had all the characters rendered in clay. So I started making all of these characters out of clay.

I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!

I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!

I think I had 'Super Mario' and 'Tetris' around, and that's it.