Skill-Based Quotes

I do my research the same as everyone else - I watch games relentlessly and try to be the best that I can be. It should be irrelevant whether I'm male or female, so as long as I work hard and try my best at it, then more we keep speaking about it, then we can eradicate it from the game.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

Skills make you rich, not theories.

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.

It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

It's good to have a game like 'Call Of Duty' because it's really competitive, and everybody wants to be the best at it.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

I like to be in control of my own athleticism. If I win, I don't want it to be because of my lucky underwear, you know? I want it to be because I put forth the work.

A four-year degree shouldn't be the only path to a good-paying job.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

Your gender becomes irrelevant when you are in a performance-based environment.

Because of the Internet, chess is not about your nationality or your background. Anyone can get good now.

I don't try to approach things any differently, songwriting-wise, regardless of what I'm doing. I try to write whatever the best thing is that I'm doing that day. If I'm working on a pop song, I'm working on a pop song to the best of my ability. If I'm working on a bluegrass song, it's the same thing. They're not really different parts of the brain.

For a woman to play within baseball, they just need to play well.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

We believe that there are a number of Nintendo titles that could do exceptionally well in the competitive play space.

I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes.' When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal.

I don't have that X factor; I have to bank on my skills, be true to my character, and hope to be accepted.

Hockey is a difficult and skill-based game.

I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.

If you have to be a female in business, Silicon Valley is the best place because it's a meritocracy. It's not about who you are, it's about what you can do.