The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game. – Timothy Noah
Listen, you make a big movie, you’re going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that’s part of the game. It’s part of the fun as well. – Sam Mendes
In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it’s the last game that everyone has seen. – Thierry Henry
I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence – and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I’d always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me. – Tom Bissell
Players like to know that they’ve discovered things that even the designers didn’t know were in the game. – Will Wright
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You’ve done it, now move on. People might say, ‘Well, when can you enjoy it?’ But it worked for me because, in the game, you need to be on your toes. – Thierry Henry
Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It’s just part of the game. – Thomas Sadoski
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent’s can destroy the entire beauty of the game. – Vladimir Kramnik
Soccer’s not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level. – Tiffeny Milbrett
If you don’t play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide. – Steven Gerrard
When I started to mention to people who know about such things, ‘I’m doing this game, ‘Portal 2’, they got very excited, suddenly. More excited than anything I’ve ever done before, weirdly. Gamers are incredibly enthusiastic about the stuff they love. – Stephen Merchant
What I have appreciated about the ‘Call of Duty’ games is the scale of production. It’s not an indie game. It’s not trying to be an indie game. But I’ve genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this. – Trent Reznor
I’m a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game. – Tom Seaver
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game. – Steven Pinker
The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience. – Warren Spector
The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play. – Will Wright
I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn’t take any ability to hustle. – Wade Boggs
