Quotes with chess-player

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  • George Bernard Shaw Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Garry Kasparov Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Garry Kasparov Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Gary Kasparov Chess is mental torture.
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  • Viktor Korchnoi Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.
    Viktor Korchnoi
    Russian chess player (1931 - 2016)
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  • Carl Sandburg CHICAGO: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ben Bernanke China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Barry Sanders Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Gary Player Each shot is important.
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  • Byron Nelson Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.
    Shape your swing the modern way (1976)
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  • Shelley Winters Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
    Shelley Winters
    American actress (1920 - 2006)
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  • Bernhard Langer Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Ben Simmons Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Benny Green He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World,
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
    Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
    Stormy, husky, brawling,
    City of the Big Shoulders.
    Chicago (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bryan Adams I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Marcel Duchamp I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bobby Fischer I felt that chess is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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