Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viswanathan Anand

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

W. C. Fields

Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.

Yuliya Snigir

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

Viktor Korchnoi

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Nick Nelson

In my apartment, I have a region with a chess table. This region wants to be in a den.

Justin Gatlin

I knew Tyson gets out very fast, and Wallace comes on strong at the end. I had to make sure I was patient throughout the whole race. I was pawning, playing chess with the guys.

Anthony Mix

This is like a chess match for me. I'm trying to understand who likes me and who doesn't because they won't tell you. A lot of guys have stats to throw around. Auburn isn't pass-oriented. We have to show up (to scouts) in other ways. I'm not nervous or anything, but there's a lot of anticipation.

Bobby Douglas

It's been a tremendous rivalry. The matches have been tactical matches which is more like a chess match. If they end up in the finals of the Big 12, I think it's going to be a great match. If they end up in the finals of the national tournament I think it's going to be another great match.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

DeShaun Foster

Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says.

Victor Martinez

I talked to a lot of guys about it. We want to get back out there and prove we can do it.

Daniel Alfredsson

I think it's a different mindset this year. You see how the guys are doing it and you see the possibilities. And you're playing more offensively, so I think the mindset is a lot different in the league right now, too. I think you're getting rewarded for going on the offense, instead of sitting back.

Paul Williams

I think it had to do with the people because some of our guys aren't used to this. It had to do with the crowd. When we got in a huddle, we had to settle down and realize it was just us and them.

Paul Trainor

I think it is the Singaporeans. These guys are readjusting their portfolios.

Herman Edwards

He likes trying to make the big kick,

Kurt Busch

He likes to talk a lot. We like to race.

Priscilla Hill

He likes that they respect the sport there, not like in America, where it's all about football.

Graeme Base

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.

Ruth Reichl

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

Andre Johnson

I think any offensive player likes to touch the ball, ... That's what you're supposed to do.

Buddy Bell

He's come a long way, ... He likes being in that situation.

Sarah Rees Brennan

And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave.

Richard M. Nixon

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Glenn Hoddle

Jody has played in a practice match and has improved,

Juli Inkster

I think it is very tough if you play just one match and a singles,

Greg Helstrom

He just never missed anything. It starts to wear on you after awhile, but that's what you have to do in match play wear your opponent down.

Sepp Blatter

He retired because he was the victim during a match of unacceptable physical and psychological abuse.

Mike Geffre

I thought we played well for our first time out. It's nice to play a match and see what you need to work on.

Elvis Forde

I think we match up with them well, though.

Bruce Aidells

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.

Emilio Butragueno

I think this is the toughest match of the draw,

Maria Sharapova

I think today I played much better, especially in the first set, than in my first match on Wednesday,

Dave Morris

I was a nervous wreck until she said it was the real thing,

Valerie Fleming

I was a little nervous that I wasn't going to be able to race. But it all worked out and I got to the podium.

Carlos Franco

He wasn't nervous because he's won three times on the Nationwide Tour.

Mykal Riley

I don't have a timetable. I'm not nervous or worried about it.

Hale Irwin

I'd be telling a tall one if I said I wasn't nervous down the stretch,

Dennis Setzer

I am kind of nervous about the championship thing.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Marina and the Diamonds

If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.

Mustafa Shakur

I just told myself we're not going to lose. I just concentrated and did the things I always do as I walk up to the line. I didn't feel nervous at all.

Joe Mauer

He's just touching up. He was a up a little bit, but he was throwing hard.

Cliff Floyd

If you have anything on the throw and it's accurate, you've got a chance,

Johnathan Joseph

If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.

Mike Hampton

If you're durable, if you're used to throwing a lot, ... I don't think there is any problem.

Andre Ward

I think my jab has a lot to do with having a throwback trainer in Virgil,

Jason Johnson

I just didn't have command. I usually usemy sinker as my out-pitch and tonight I couldn't throw it where and when I wanted to.

Tom Gordon

I hadn't thrown him a curveball in the at-bat. I had thrown him fastballs and cutters.

Sim Osborn

I had these toys in my house, I've thrown them out, and told everyone I know.

Gerald Laird

I'm throwing good, my thumb is 100 percent,

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Marco Rubio

I think Tupac was more someone who was trying to inform us about what was going on, and he did it through entertainment.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.