Top 1200 Chess Players Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

Football has changed, and so has the relationship between the players on the pitch. Where once some players would try everything to distract opponents, now it's harder. There are TV cameras everywhere, which have much higher quality images than before. There are lip readers in studios working out what you are saying to each other.

My second year in Rome was very good. Back then, a striker was a striker. Strikers scored goals; they didn't defend. Today this is normal, but it wasn't at that time. If you wanted to play my style of football you couldn't have old players or famous players who were unwilling to do the job both ways: attacking and also defending.

I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

Players win games, and coaches win players.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Some players have no idea how to handle life without structure. That's why some players get into trouble during the offseason. This is literally the first time in our lives we've ever had free time without somebody telling us where to be and what to do.

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Of course, the attacking players get the attention because they score the goals, score nice goals, and those are the moments that remain in memory. But I wish that other players who are not in the foreground, who still perform well for their club or association, get more recognition.

I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys.

When I was coming through, I had very little support from the older players. I always said to myself that if I make it, I never want to be that kind of person. I have a passion for seeing young players develop, so every young player who comes into the first team, I am willing to listen. I will give him everything I have.

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.

You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

Yesterday the DEA raided several NFL teams suspected of giving prescription painkillers to their players. In its defense, the New York Jets' doctor said, 'We don't give painkillers to our players. We give them to our fans.'

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.

If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.

Klopp knows how to motivate players. He speaks to them individually, gets their confidence up, makes them believe and grow in quality. He makes his players feel happy. And they then take that happiness onto the field. He builds that into them.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

I think players look around and they look at the teams that they'd like to join and it's usually teams that already have good players on those teams.

We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

It all goes back to the players putting everything out on the pitch. They commit to the game, so the support gets behind them straight away. They don't see half-hearted performances, they don't see people that are not running around. They see players competing, putting in the effort and enthusiasm.

When I see players like Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Robinson Cano, and Miguel Cabrera, I see they have a good season, but they also jump up the next year and do it over and over again. I want to be one of those players that do it every year.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of chess.

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.

I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.

If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.

Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

It's a stereotype that black players are just really fast, but at the end of day I want to be skilled, I want to be technical, I want to have vision and that's what I've always tried to promote in my game: not relying on one thing but just being able to outwork players in so many different ways.

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

I think that what's happening is that girls are enjoying playing. It's a lot more acceptable, and now we have a Women's Super League with hugely dedicated female role models - really committed players who people can see are dedicated and training as hard if not harder than any male players - that's all progressing the sport.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.