Player - Games and Sports

Games and Sports

  • Player (game), a participant in a game
    • Player character, a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player
    • Player-coach, in sports, is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties
    • Player-manager
    • Football player

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Famous quotes containing the words games and, games and/or sports:

    “In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.”
    —Philippe Ariés (20th century)

    “The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)