Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Fischer

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Bobby Fischer

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

Bobby Fischer

There's no one alive I can't beat.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of chess.

We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus.

We're moving chess pieces all over the place, ... We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track of where everybody is.

This is like a chess match for me. I'm trying to understand who likes me and who doesn't because they won't tell you. A lot of guys have stats to throw around. Auburn isn't pass-oriented. We have to show up (to scouts) in other ways. I'm not nervous or anything, but there's a lot of anticipation.

In my apartment, I have a region with a chess table. This region wants to be in a den.

Justin Gatlin

I knew Tyson gets out very fast, and Wallace comes on strong at the end. I had to make sure I was patient throughout the whole race. I was pawning, playing chess with the guys.

They'll be competing with companies like Computer Associates. This is the opening move in a larger chess game.

David Pierce

By the time the disease was through with him, he no longer knew how to move a chess piece or to put together a simple child's model boat,

Nigel Short

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

Max Euwe

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

Scholastic chess is experiencing a real resurgence. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to kids playing chess.

Solomon Burke

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

First, we want him to be healthy, and if he's athletic, that's great. But we always kid around that if he's a 7-foot chess player, that's fine.

Wyclef Jean

You get conflicts all of the time. But you have to know how to play the chess game. We come with results, and we come with solutions.

David Taras

You have to have a niche, a place to play on the chess board. You needed to start running a year ago unless you're Preston.

Wrestling is a physical chess match. What he does is put extra effort before and after practice to sharpen his skills. He doesn't need to be motivated. He motivates himself.

Paul Tudor Jones

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

Rick Kennedy

Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains

Viswanathan Anand

I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you

Viswanathan Anand

Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

Viswanathan Anand

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

Viktor Korchnoi

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Vladimir Kramnik

Computers have changed the World of Chess.

Vladimir Kramnik

Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

I've heard it called playing chess and pool at the same time, with people, because it's all about outwitting your opponent and knowing the angles. It requires a lot of training and practice.

Monica Seles

It's fantastically exciting. She's so young still and she was so good. I'm a big fan of hers. She was a great No. 1 player. She was a chess player out there.

It's an exciting sport to watch. It's a chess match, that's active.

It'll be a chess match, that first 20 minutes.

Steven Gerrard

It was like a chess game. We defended well and 0-0 is a good result but the tie isn't over, it's just half-time,

Donte Whitner

It's going to be a big chess match. Offensively, they don't do a lot of different things than other college teams, but they do a lot of things better than a lot of college teams do.