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- After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
- Italian Proverb
- For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. - Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)
- Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
- Italian Proverb
- It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
- John Wooden (1910 - )
- On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- Players win games, teams win championships.
- Bill Taylor
- All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 9, 2010
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