Chess Quote by John Skipper Download Open image “Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.” — John Skipper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Competition Doing Real Sports
Chess is a great game. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes you wonder what else is out there. — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers. — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I love chess. Having to concentrate, to play against someone else, strategy - having to think ahead. I think all of that is very… — Carlos Alcaraz Copy Share Image
Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues. — John Skipper Copy Share Image
I have this thing I used to say at home and in the office: If somebody is calling, unless it's somebody who can fire… — John Skipper Copy Share Image
Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cost a lot of money… — John Skipper Copy Share Image
When you look at what you get in a cable subscription, it is a spectacular value. For $70 or $80 a month is what… — John Skipper Copy Share Image
The cable package continues to be the greatest value in the history of entertainment. The average hour watched on cable television costs between 15… — John Skipper Copy Share Image
The consumption of highlights on ESPN is greater than everybody else's combined. Fifty-six percent of all news and information consumed in sports is consumed… — John Skipper Copy Share Image
I actually thought I wanted to be Thomas Wolfe, but I didn't have the talent. So I thought I could edit Thomas Wolfe. — John Skipper Copy Share Image
I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old… — John Skipper Copy Share Image
It is accurate that the Walt Disney Company and ESPN are committed to diversity and inclusion. These are long-standing values that drive fundamental fairness… — John Skipper Copy Share Image
We at ESPN like competition. It makes us better. It makes us sharper. — John Skipper Copy Share Image
Brand matters. And ESPN is, by far, the most popular sports brand. People trust ESPN. — John Skipper Copy Share Image
Sports is a mass product, and it's a non-replicable product. You can't knock it off. — John Skipper Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image