I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
Anatoly Karpov

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.
Maurice Ashley

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
Boris Spassky

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
Christopher Meloni

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
Dennis Miller

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Rex Stout

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik

In Kansas I have a chess school.
Anatoly Karpov

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Charles Buxton

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
Boris Spassky

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
Bruno Schulz

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
Douglass North

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Jimmy Smits

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
Solomon Burke

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
Ron Livingston

Life's to short for chess.
Henry James Byron

Life's too short for chess.
Henry James Byron

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Felix Frankfurter

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
Terry Pratchett