Top 1200 Chess Players Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Chess is a great game. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes you wonder what else is out there.

I think the way City spends, I would say it's a lot of money. But they spend it in a responsible way. They attract good players, young players and they cost a lot of money.

For 99.9% of the players there, they are at United because they want to be at United, and it is their dream move. That gives United a little bit of an advantage over other clubs, where some players are maybe there because there was financial pressure for them to be sold.

In my free time, I love to catch up with tennis, swimming, travelling, and chess.

I think coaches are very much guilty of trying to implement players into their schemes as opposed as trying to fit schemes into players. That's the thing that can separate good coaches from bad.

I'm not comparing it with cricketers who get huge money. But getting some financial benefits do motivate players, especially athletes. I appreciate this move by the state government. A state like Haryana has been producing more and more players because of such motivations.

In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

A lot of people see a future where you could make a living as a chess player.

I think there are a lot of good players in the top 20, top 30 that are top-10 players. You got to get there. You got to earn it.

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

It's just something about great players when they play in certain arenas or against other great players. They elevate their play. LeBron is one of those guys. He feels the moment. He understands the moment.

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

When you're 17 and 18 is when you get really good, and in college, you have to put the chess aside.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out.

Some players have 18 years in football. But some players are injured before they start. When I thought like that I said: 'If I compare with that I have been very lucky. At least I had 10 years of a beautiful experience that changed my life for ever.'

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

I think you need people who can advise you; that is more important that an agent. They are important because they help players move, but I have some experience of agents working with players who have done things not to help the player but to help themselves.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

You should never want to be a one position player. If you're a real basketball player, you should be able to play any position. That's the difference between really good players and average players.

I want players to think: 'OK, this has happened now, what is next for me?' That's a very big target because what are academies about nowadays? Is it really just to find one or two players? But what happened to the others? I'm very, very interested in that.

I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.

Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

When you come to Manchester United, in every transfer window - whether the team is doing well or badly - there are always players linked with the club because this club is always linked with the best players.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.

When you look across the board at the count of NBA quality players that are on various international teams in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, there are good players all over the world now. It's just not in the NBA where America has the most talent.

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

For clubs, free movement plays a big role in transfers and players' contracts. Players from the E.U. can sign for U.K. clubs without needing a visa or special work permit, making it quicker and easier to secure top talent from across Europe to come and play in our leagues.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

I have seen some terrifically exciting changes with young players coming into the squad which is reinvigorated. The older players and the whole group has been refreshed by the youth and enthusiasm that has come into the team. I think that has been misunderstood and misrepresented in certain quarters to the detriment of Indian cricket.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

I'm not silly enough to say I don't take note of what other strikers are doing. I was totally aware players were scoring that were in the squad - and of English players scoring who weren't in the squad.

I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.