“Name of the Game” quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Meredith

[voiceover] A good basketball game can have us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, pain and the play by play. And then there are the more solitary games. The games we each play all by ourselves. The social games, the mind games, we use them to pass the time to make life more interesting to distract us from what's really going on. There are those of us who love to play games, any games. And there are those of us who love to play a little too much.

Alex

So this whole lying thing, this is working out for you?

Excuse me?

Alex

You're going to die and soon. You get that, right? There's no rosy picture to paint here.

You're not a mother. You don't know what its like to hold your newborn baby in your arms and smell the top of her head. And know your only job in the world is to protect her.

Alex

You think you're protecting her?

I am protecting her.

Alex

Well, I guess you can call it what you want. But you should just know you're leaving behind a kid that will probably hate you the rest of her life.

Burke

Ahem... Dr. Karev.

Alex

No, I'm talking this time.

Burke

Excuse me?

Alex

I tell the truth. It's what I do. It doesn't make me a bad doctor. Everyone walks around this place lying. Look we tell the patient that's dying that there's hope when there is no hope. Maybe I'm a pig, maybe I'm an ass, and maybe I'm a varmint like everybody says. But I tell them the truth. It's the one thing that I've got going for me. And you don't get to take that away from me and call it a lesson. Sir.

Meredith

[voiceover] Life is not a spectator sport. Win, lose, or draw, the game is in progress, whether we want it to be or not. So go ahead argue with the refs, change the rules, cheat a little, take a break and tend to your wounds. But play. Play. Play hard, play fast, play loose and free. Play as if there's no tomorrow. [pause] Okay, so it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game... right?