Top 1200 Chess Players Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.

Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I used to come out and say I was targeting certain players in the opposition team, particularly players I had had success against in the past: Gary Kirsten, Brian Lara and Michael Atherton, for example. It is a mental part of the game.

Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

When you look at the best players in the world, they can play all the formats. I don't think it's an easy thing to do and that's why they're the best players in the world.

I remember that, often, Mike Phelan would just nip down to the touchline for a message to one or two players. It was usually just a tactical thing. But when Sir Alex comes to the touchline, all the players know that it's serious stuff.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.

Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don't recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.

If we can't find the next technological breakthrough, well, maybe we can be better than anyone else with how we treat our players and how we connect with players and the relationships we develop and how we put them in positions to succeed.

No matter how good you are, your mentality has got to be right. A lot of young players, that's where they go wrong, and that's what I've always seen when I was growing up - players who are almost there but couldn't quite get there because the mentality wasn't right.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

Chess demolishes differences. It's a language of different generations.

Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

I think the game has grown so much and I was definitely there a lot. I'd say more so less the style of play, but more knowing individual players and their tendencies and knowing which players are going to be key threats for them.

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

It is going to be difficult for the West Indies to get back to the top, but we got to start somewhere, and if playing young players is the way we have decided to go, these young players must be given the chance to mature and develop and not be discarded at an early age.

I'm not friends with my players, but I am very close to my players. When I speak to them, I want to speak to the man, always the man.

I always wanted to play for AC Milan or Real Madrid. Real Madrid, of course, because when I was young, the players that played there were the top players. I was looking at Real Madrid as the best of the best. And AC Milan, they also had good players when I was young, so I looked at AC Milan the same way as Real Madrid.

The way the Premier League is now we have a lot of foreign players. A lot of very good foreign players.

If you want to continue to be good and perform at a high level and be deep in all areas, you still have to hit on some undervalued players, too. You can't just go out and sign marquee free agents or trade for players when they're at the peak of their value. That's not a formula for long-term success.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

I'm one of the best players in the world in that No.10 position. Fans, coaches, players, and everyone knows that my best position is playmaker.

When we have the ball, we're all offensive players. When we lose the ball, we're all defensive players.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

In my team, I don't want selfish players. I prefer to lose a game than have selfish players. I don't want that in my club. Never.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.

We want the best sort of 500 players or so that we can possibly get, and the best 500 players typically have a very similar background. They've played three or four years of college football. They're mature. They're professional.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.