Quotes 81 till 100 of 117.
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Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
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Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
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The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.
How Life Imitates Chess (2007) 96 -
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for a player to break.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
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The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
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There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.
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There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.
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There were always kids better than me. Because of that, I had to learn to be a role player and do my part.
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There's no way to know how good a player you are except by measuring against others.
The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3 -
Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
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