Power Up Your Spirit with These Inspirational Gaming Quotes

Gaming typically refers to the activity of playing electronic games, which can include video games, computer games, mobile games, and other forms of interactive entertainment. Gaming can be done solo or in multiplayer mode, either online or offline. It has become a significant cultural phenomenon, encompassing a wide range of genres, platforms, and communities. People engage in gaming for various reasons, including entertainment, social interaction, competition, relaxation, and cognitive stimulation.

Gaming Quotes

1. “Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.”
— Andy Serkis

2. “Education should learn from the positive side of gaming – reward, accomplishment, and fun.”
— Sebastian Thrun

3. “Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That’s part of what I love about games, that they are social.”
— Rich Sommer

4. “Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.”
— Gary Gygax

5. “Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.”
— Ed Greenwood

6. “The gaming world isn’t filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it’s mostly enchanting.”
— Naomi Alderman

7. “My mom didn’t let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It’s all escapism.”
— Wayne Brady

8. “Our strategy is gaming for the masses.”
— Reggie Fils-Aime

9. “So yeah, from an early age, I always quite enjoyed gaming. It’s always been a big part of my life.”
— Asim Chaudhry

10. “A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it’s all digital and at a distance. There’s this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there’s been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.”
— Matthew Mercer

11. “I think that gaming is more fun when you’re playing with people that you know.”
— Michael Morhaime

12. “Getting to play with your friends and trash talk. That’s some of the best parts of gaming for me. It’s like having recess in elementary school.”
— Kofi Kingston

13. “Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very conservative financial strategy.”
— Stanley Ho

14. “The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.”
— Bobby Kotick

15. “For years now, I’ve used gaming to unwind and relax during the season. It’s also how I manage to keep up with my friends when I’m on the road.”
— Rudy Gobert

16. “Gaming’s good for many different things, I’d say.”
— Bukayo Saka

17. “The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.”
— Jim Lee

18. “Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.”
— Trip Hawkins

19. “Gaming notebooks aren’t that abundant. Not that many gamers are able to play on notebooks.”
— Jensen Huang

20. “If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.”
— Naomi Alderman

21. “I’ve watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the arcade, and a lot of my great childhood memories were around a ‘Tempest’ machine.”
— Trent Reznor

22. “Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.”
— Zachary Levi

23. “I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain’t where they need to be to be online, you know what I’m saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.”
— Ice Cube

24. “For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.”
— Warren Spector

25. “Gaming is our cultural bogeyman – we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.”
— Naomi Alderman

26. “Do we care about gaming? We absolutely care.”
— Lisa Su

27. “Cloud Gaming means that the game doesn’t need to be downloaded and run on your computer; it literally means the game runs out on the Internet, in the cloud, with the experience being streamed to the players.”
— David Perry

28. “Mr. Mr. Mr. Trump… You’ve been in New York real estate and global real estate and the gaming industry and with politicians. You can’t say, reasonably, that Ted Cruz is the biggest liar you’ve ever seen.”
— Steve Bannon

29. “I’ve always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I’m not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”
— Aaron Koblin

30. “Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.”
— William Wycherley

31. “Gaming brings people together.”
— Lisa Su

32. “We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain’s allocation of resources.”
— Daphne Bavelier

33. “Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
— Charles Lamb

34. “Sometimes it’s not always about what you can see or hear but what’s under the hood of a game that’s most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.”
— Rob Manuel

35. “Essentially, I’m a 21-year-old who’s a millionaire through gaming, vlogging, and my online experience. Yo, I’ll take it!”
— KSI

36. “Private schools are gaming the system. There is way too much state money going in, and people who go to private schools seem to be given a head start for all of the top jobs and that’s something that needs to be dealt with as well.”
— Angela Rayner

37. “To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.”
— Eugene Jarvis

38. “The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That’s the general rule.”
— Nick Johnson

39. “Gaming related content will redefine entertainment and I am looking forward to leading the way.”
— Dr. Disrespect

40. “Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents.”
— Gordon Neufeld

41. “Virtual reality sort of encloses and immerses the person into an experience that can be really cool but probably has a lower commercial interest over time. Less people will be interested in that, but there are some really cool areas there for education and gaming that we have a lot of interest in.”
— Tim Cook

42. “We are trying to capture the widest possible audience all around the world. In other words, we are trying to capture the people who are even beyond the gaming population.”
— Satoru Iwata

43. “I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don’t put myself into gender mode when designing a game.”
— Roberta Williams

44. “An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.”
— Marc Andreessen

45. “As others have recently suggested, the term ‘gamer’ is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I’ll take a cue from my younger self and say I don’t care about being a ‘gamer,’ but I sure do love video games.”
— Anita Sarkeesian

46. “I was working in a gaming company, but I really wanted to make animation. I didn’t really have anything special, no special tools at my disposal, so I used what I had on hand like Photoshop, and that’s really how I started.”
— Makoto Shinkai

47. “I can’t say I’m a full-on gamer, since, basically, I just don’t have time for it. I know nowadays, gaming can be a lot like social media. People just stay on it all day long. Like they’re logged into the Matrix. But yeah, I enjoy it. When I get the time.”
— Roman Reigns

48. “I actually think gaming is amazing for your mental health.”
— Asim Chaudhry

49. “I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.”
— Gary Gygax

50. “We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That’s what gaming does.”
— Warren Spector

51. “I think people have called Twitch a niche for a long time but it’s not, gaming is bigger than Hollywood.”
— Justin Kan

52. “The knowledge that all the games are created by the community, it gives the opportunity to try exploratory gaming concepts. Our developers take larger risks in what they make.”
— David Baszucki

53. “I do NOT think that PC gaming is over… it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.”
— Mike Wilson

54. “Look at music like gaming. You monetize the game to all the people who are most engaged. I wanted to bring that theory and thinking to music.”
— Steve Stoute

55. “There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can’t do it in five minutes. You can’t listen to ‘The Rite of Spring’ once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.”
— Penn Jillette

56. “I’m a huge gamer. I’m very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I’m excited about a lot of stuff that’s outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.”
— Palmer Luckey

57. “Gaming has a certain form in which it is organized. It has different levels and a sense of participation. Achievement is very important. You are constantly judged in relation to earning points. I think that’s a way many people have learned to understand the world.”
— Hito Steyerl

58. “I do a lot of gaming.”
— Big Show

59. “As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.”
— Kenny Guinn

60. “In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.”
— Tim Pawlenty