Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Fischer

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

Bobby Fischer

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

Bobby Fischer

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

Bobby Fischer

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

Bobby Fischer

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Bobby Fischer

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it

Bobby Fischer

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

Bobby Fischer

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

Bobby Fischer

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

Bobby Fischer

I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.

Bobby Fischer

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Bruce Dern

I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

Bruce Dern

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

Bruce Dickinson

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.

Bruce Froemming

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Brigitte Bardot

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

Branford Marsalis

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

Branford Marsalis

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

Brady Anderson

I want to stay with the Orioles. I'd like to play here for the rest of my career. I don't want to go through this again in four years.

Brad Pitt

[Robert]Ford had the idea that through fame he would receive some personal validity, but he didn't. I feel that these are not the main themes, but certainly themes that are at play in this film [ Assassination of Jesse James].

Bonnie Tyler

I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

Bonnie Raitt

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

Bonnie Raitt

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

Bonnie Raitt

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

Bobby Cox

If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.

Bobby Bonilla

We spent a lot of money on some players.

Bobby Clarke

The Russians are the dirtiest players I’ve ever seen.

Bobby Hull

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

Bobby Fischer

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

Bobby Fischer

You are never too old to play chess!

Bobby Fischer

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

Arthur Smith

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Artie Shaw

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.