FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: nd.edu

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CHESS QUOTES
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Famous quotes from the experts:
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"Black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5 leaves him always trying to get into the game."
-- STAUNTON
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"After White's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes."
-- STAUNTON
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"I have never in my life played the French Defence... the dullest of all openings."
-- STEINITZ
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"Chess is mental torture."
-- KASPAROV
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"When in doubt -- play chess."
-- TEVIS
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"Life is too short for chess."
-- BYRON
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"The loser is always at fault."
-- PANOV
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"Chess is a curse upon a man."
-- H.G.WELLS
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"Chess is the art of analysis."
-- BOTVINNIK
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"I hate anyone who beats me."
-- LISA LANE
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"Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue."
-- RETI
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"Let the perfectionist play postal."
-- SEIRAWAN
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"A good player is always lucky."
-- CAPABLANCA
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"There are no heroes in chess."
-- CORY EVANS
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"One bad move nullifies forty good ones."
-- HOROWITZ
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"The older I grow, the more I value Pawns."
-- KERES
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"A wood-pusher overlooks the ranks."
-- RUSSIAN SAYING
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"The hardest game to win is a won game."
-- Em. LASKER
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"Actually, the hardest game to win is a lost game!"
-- DAVE REGIS
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"There just isn't enough televised chess."
-- LETTERMAN
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"Some part of a mistake is always correct."
-- TARTAKOVER
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"Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf."
-- PURDY
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"There is no remorse like the remorse of chess."
-- H.G.WELLS
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"You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills."
-- KARPOV
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"All chess masters can play one game blindfolded."
-- KOLTANOWSKI
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"When the going gets tactical, the computers get going."
-- HYATT
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"Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all."
-- FISCHER
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"No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King."
-- KOBLENTZ
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"There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine."
-- TAL
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"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."
-- CARNEGIE
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"The life of the American chess master is a `vale of tears'."
-- FRIAS
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"Fame, I have already. Now I need the money."
-- an elderly STEINITZ
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"It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men."
-- TARTAKOVER
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"An isolated Pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard."
-- TARTAKOVER
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"The first principle of attack--Don't let the opponent develop!"
-- FINE
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"When you see a good move--wait--look for a better one."
-- Em. LASKER
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"Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands!"
-- RENAUD and KAHN
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"To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game."
-- TARTAKOVER
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"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made."
-- TARTAKOVER
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"On the chess-board lies and hypocrisy do not survive long."
-- Em. LASKER
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"Why must I lose to this idiot???"
-- NIMZOVICH
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