Quotes with chess-player

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  • Garry Kasparov I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • John McEnroe I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
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  • Al Spalding I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Bryce Harper I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Adam Jones I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist I'm a manager's player, in a way, because he can use me in a lot of different ways, and I'm willing to do that.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Benny Blanco I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Ben Simmons I'm the best PlayStation player you'll ever see. I'll play anything. 'Call of Duty,' 'NBA2K,' 'Grand Theft Auto.'
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Brooks Robinson I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Bill Clinton If a politician doesn't wanna get beat up, he shouldn't run for office. If a football player doesn't want to get tackled or want the risk of an a occasional clip he shouldn't put the pads on.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Isiah Thomas If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
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  • Roberto Clemente If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
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  • Ben Carson If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bradley Cooper If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
    Bradley Cooper
    American actor and filmmaker (1975 - )
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  • Bob Uecker In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Charles Buxton In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Boris Spassky In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Bruno Schulz In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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