#game

You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#action #believe #believe-and-achieve #bench #dress

The two studied one another for what seemed hours, neither saying a word. Jaden’s first inclination was to yell and demand his freedom, but something held him back. Here was a new man, and a new set of mind games. He waited for the old man to speak first and introduce himself, as Dalton had upon their first formal meeting. The stranger remained silent. ↗

— Courtney Kirchoff

#mind-games #nemesis #strategy #freedom

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#funny #gaga #germanotta #hilarious #interview

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#called #eraser #game #golf #golf game

I hear Peeta's voice in my head. She has no idea. The effect she can have. Obviously meant to demean me. Right? But a tiny part of me wonders if this was a compliment. That he meant I was appealing in some way. It's weird, how much he's noticed me. Like the attention he's paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#peeta #the-hunger-games #imagination

Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says. “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#peeta-mellark #the-hunger-games #death

It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind. ↗

— Pauline Clarke

#games #imagination #truth #imagination

I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won. ↗

— Ron Atkinson

#game #had #i #sneaking #throughout

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#again #almost #been #career #failed

Crying is not an option. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#the-hunger-games #inspirational