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title: "6 Americans Play Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-montana/some-guys-practice-like-all-americans-but-they-can-t-play/)

[Joe Montana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-montana/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea7/joe-montana-16784_guys_some-guys-practice-like-all-americans-bu_87161.png)

> [Most Americans I play for are clueless as to who Richard Ramirez was, so you can imagine how audiences in Portugal react.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kozelek/most-americans-i-play-for-are-clueless-as-to-who-richard-ramirez-was/)

[Mark Kozelek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kozelek/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/798/mark-kozelek-8742_americans_most-americans-i-play-for-are-clueless-a_257721.jpg)

> [All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-c-scott/all-this-stuff-you-heard-about-america-not-wanting-to-fight-wanting/)

[George C. Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-c-scott/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/095/george-c-scott-32267_america_all-this-stuff-you-heard-about-america-n_1170449.png)

> [Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vic-braden/every-day-two-million-americans-play-tennis-and-one-million-of-them/)

[Vic Braden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vic-braden/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c7/vic-braden-57491_every-day_every-day-two-million-americans-play-ten_2022910.png)

> [Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bobby-jindal/containment-is-a-strategy-for-losers-but-as-general-george-s-patton/)

[Bobby Jindal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobby-jindal/)

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> [Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-s-patton/americans-play-to-win-at-all-times-i-wouldn-t-give-a-hoot-and-hell/)

[George S. Patton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-s-patton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb2/george-s-patton-1770_americans_americans-play-to-win-at-all-times-i-wou_2659835.jpg)

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