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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
Oct 2, 2025
Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
I'm not a good guitar player.
Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.
The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.
It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.
I am not a player anymore.
What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play.
Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.
I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.
It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.
In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.
But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.
To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more rested when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.
I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.
Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
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 didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.
I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
I went through baseball as a player to be named later.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me
I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.
The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel - wherever they are and whenever they want to play. It should be the same software and the same experience.