Chess

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

- Woody Allen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm pretty sure they're going to do everything they did in the regular season. It's not important. For sure, they're going to use all the tricks to stop me, and I have to use all my tricks to beat them. It's a chess game.

- Jaromir Jagr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

- Kobe Bryant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

- Bryan Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.

- William Hazlitt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

- Richard Dawkins Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

- Douglass North Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

- Stanley Kubrick Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Combination is a soul of chess.

- Alexander Alekhine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

- Felix Frankfurter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I could go out to the studio he had in L.A. and hang around with him. We'd play chess. I later learned that was a real privilege.

- Rick Blackburn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.

- Martin Dansky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning

- Henry Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I credit chess with helping to pull me out of depression and affording me a true circle of friends whom refuse to judge me for what they see on the outside.

- Bill Chandler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm going to go out and do a little cowboyin'. You know what that is Cowboying is getting in a motor home or a van or something like that and you just let the air blow in your hair and you wind up in some little bar in Arizona someplace. You shoot one-handed nine-ball with some 90-year-old Portuguese woman who beats the hell out of you, and the next day you wind up in a park someplace playing chess with somebody, and you go see a high school play where they're doing 'West Side Story.'

- Robert Blake Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's always a chess match this time of year. It's more mental than anything else and I don't want to say we feel confident about anyone, but we feel confident within our own game in what we can do and take away from people.

- Leslie Crane Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Clive James Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- David Taras Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We thought they'd play us man on the last possession. We set up a play for a man defense and they didn't play it. It was like a chess match and (Scott) beat me.

- Paul Brooks Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Why can't we discuss this in the context of the uprate ... Entergy is plying a careful game of chess ... Dry cask storage is the next movement on the board ... I pray that you are not pawns in this game.

- Andrew Davis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here Yugoslavia to play chess and nothing else.

- Bobby Fischer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It becomes a bit of a chess match, because I have to put my A swimmer hopefully in a spot where she will swim better than their A swimmer.

- Brian Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

- Charles Dudley Warner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

- Eric Allin Cornell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To score five goals against one of the better defensive teams, we're happy with that. Sunday is going to be a chess match. You don't want to let a golden opportunity go to waste.

- Nick Iaciancio Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes