Bryce Courtenay Quotes

Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

I feel like I can adapt to any defense.

Players at the top level have to be ready for everything.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.

Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.

You've got to be flexible. If you want to win, you have to do whatever it takes.

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

If the run game's not working, you'll most likely succeed in the pass game, and even if there's a game where the run game and the pass game's not working, you've got to find a way to continue to win. You can't get too caught up in one play. You can't get too caught up one quarter or one drive.

Playing me in different positions helped me to get in the head of the others players: to know what they're thinking, where and how they are going to move.

I think what we focus on is every game is a different challenge, and you have to find ways to put yourself in position to win, and you have to have a resourcefulness, and it's not always going to go according to play.

I understand now the different games and the different approaches that you need to take at different times, with different styles of play.

The game changes so quickly, and you have to get yourself in a position mentally where you can deal with whatever is thrown at you.

Basketball players can adapt to any situation.

That's a sign of a good football team, where we can adjust and adapt to our surroundings.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

I have taken to living by my wits.