“Games are like Rorschachs made of human relationships.”

It’s easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

For every Way there’s a way of following that Way that’s fun

The purpose of fun is to live it.

In a Game Community, the rules and officials decide if the players are good enough to play. If not, they change players. In a Play Community, the players decide if the game is fun enough to play. If not, they change rules.

You can only have fun helping other people have fun if you’re having fun doing it.

Ask not what fun does for you. Ask rather what you do for fun.

Fun is where it’s at. That’s why you have to be there.

Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.

I think for kids it’s the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.

Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games.

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.