Quotes about National Game

Loukas Tsoukalis

The political game remains predominantly national. It is usually played as if national units were more independent economically than they actually are.

A decade after he made this observation, the external economic markets were not happy with the ways the Greek Government had handled the economy and the nation became insolvent. The IMF, World Bank and the other European nations bailed Greece out be making emergency loans, but then they imposed conditions on the Greek Government that was completely contrary to what the Greek politicians and the Greek voters wanted. The Greek national government had almost no control over their own economy.

Calvin Coolidge

Baseball is our national game.

Andy Rooney

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

Branch Rickey

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Grantland Rice

Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.

George Mikes

They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

Walt Whitman

That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

Sandeep Singh

We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.

National Game Quotes