Chess Quote by Rubin Carter

Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple…

— Reggie Rivers

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.

— Trent Alexander-Arnold

Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is…

— Barney Chavous

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

— Vitali Klitschko

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and…

— Garry Kasparov

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

— Boris Spassky

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is…

— Junior Seau

Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a…

— Karl A. Menninger

...chess is "a lot like football because you have to set up your offense and your defense, every once in a while you need…

— Priest Holmes

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

— Samuel Reshevsky

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

— Richard Reti

Chess isn't football or hockey.

— Mikhail Tal