Top 1200 Chess Players Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

A great chess player always has a very good memory.

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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.

I think the NBA just, overall, when you need somebody to blame, the first person that you go to is the coach. But at the end of the day, you need the right players that match each other. Not just the best players. Chemistry helps.

We're dealing with men here. What we're trying to do is help them become the best players they can be, and we're all collectively trying to win games. So what I always tell people is that the way you earn these players' respect is, do you make them a better football player?

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

A lot of players were going to Europe, but there were always stories of teams not being able to pay, and the players and girls were stuck with no money for airfare to come home. So I got a nice contract from Japan and decided to play there.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

I'm happy with the confidence that Tite has shown me. He and his coaching staff have been doing a great job. My relationship with him is the best I can hope for and I always say that he cares about all the players equally, giving the same level of attention to first-team players and reserves.

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

I thrive on quick players getting to the byline and sending over crosses. I just have to be quick enough to get on the end of things. In that regard, my job has always been the same, but if we have more wide, quick players, that can only be good for me.

Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play.... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort.

'Seba' Veron was one of the best players I shared a dressing room with. Not only was he technically gifted and could pass the ball accurately over distance, not only could he anticipate where players would run, but he also ran himself.

Most innovative little board game since Chess.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Each NFL team has its own policy about their own players dating their own cheerleaders. And in the Raiders there is no policy against it, though it is not encouraged. Yes, there are successful relationships between players and Raiderettes.

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

I really do care about the health of the players. That's one of the tough things about the NFL - it's so physically tough on the players.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

In previous experiences of being in the All-Star Games, you know, seeing the hometown players and how the fans get behind the hometown players, it's always been a special moment just watching that from afar and being on the other side.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Felix Magath works with pressure. At first, we didn't know where we stood with him. That prompted the players to give their best because they wanted to play, but after a while the players knew where they stood and Magath no longer received the same effect.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

I love Coach K's passion to coach his players and to coach the game. I examined and watched the interaction between him and his staff, along with the players, and was impressed how hard they played.

I had some very good players and some wonderful young players hitting the scene. Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Michael Owen - we had something tangible to work with and move forward.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

All my future plans are related to Real Madrid, and there are no other clubs on my mind. I'm so happy here along with my family. Few players have ended their career here, Zidane being one of the exceptions. I'd like to be one of those players, too, but time will tell what the future holds.

When you sit with people you love, if you say something stupid, they call you on it - because they're honest with you and they're making you better. That's what we're as couches going to have here with our players. We're going to have an honest respect for one another, to make everyone maximize the potential they have. I expect the players to listen to me, and I'm going to listen to them. We've got to make each other better, and it's the way to create safety, because the players know you've got their backs. When you tell a player what you want, he will try to please you.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.

It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.

If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won't always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as 'one of us' making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe.

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win—grunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing. Oh…and the players were all baboons.

Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.