Chess Quotes - Page 35

• My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Passion, Parent, Coaches

  "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.

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• Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Life, Being Yourself

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• Play as often as you can.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Play

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.200, Conari Press

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• For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.

  Ronda Rousey

  Moving, Mma, Ideas

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.

  Pat Ament

  Climbing, Brain, Mind

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• If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Three, Macro, Trading

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• Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Play, Long

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• I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

  Jenny Frost

  Fate, Games, Chess Game

  "Jenny Frost: I'm sure Mum is watching over me and shaping my life". www.mirror.co.uk. November 11, 2010.

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

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Games

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

  Ronald Gross

  Genius, Certain, Temperament

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• I play chess, but my past is checkered,
  The mic and I are like staff and shepherd.

  Ka

  Rap, Past, Play

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• Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

  Christopher Bollen

  Motivation, Games, Tennis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

  Garry Kasparov

  Sports, Baseball, Lucky

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• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Play, Boards, Opponents

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• Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.

  Boris Spassky

  People, Choices, Competition

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• The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

  David Brooks

  Practice, Keys, Crafts

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• You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!

  John Adams

  Player, Bishops, May

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• When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one.

  John Adams

  Moving, Hands

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• The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

  Peter Sagal

  Sports, Winter, Ice

  "Lightning Fill In The Blank". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 2, 2015.

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• When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.

  Mark Taimanov

  Powerful, Moving, Play

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• Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

  Patrick Wolff

  Long, Investing, Want

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• Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

  George Koltanowski

  Goddess, Evidence, Historian

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• There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

  George Steiner

  Intellectual, Age, Three

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Chess is a time game, it’s a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.

  Priest Holmes

  Running, Games, Balls

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

  Jacques Barzun

  Baseball, Play, Legs

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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