Chess Quotes

1355 quotes by 411 authors

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the… — Magnus Carlsen
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport. — Magnus Carlsen
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. — Bobby Fischer
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. — Yann Martel
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or… — Steven Johnson
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm… — Ronda Rousey
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together. — Pat Ament
If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess. — Paul Tudor Jones
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy,… — Chris Hardwick
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game. — Jenny Frost
Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess. — Peter Dobereiner
Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game… — Christopher Bollen
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate… — Edgar Allan Poe
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who… — George Steiner
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket,… — Norbert Wiener
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the… — Viktor Korchnoi
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. — Garry Kasparov
I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve. — Garry Kasparov
Combination is a soul of chess. — Alexander Alekhine

Who Wrote These Chess Quotes

411 authors contributed a total of 1,355 Chess Quotes, led by these top contributors: