Millie Bright Quotes

You can never make the mistake of underestimating an opponent, especially in the Champions League.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Once you have an opponent in your mind that you're preparing for, you're working on specifics, and you get guys in to mimic what they do.

I feel like I've got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

You have to think tactically and you can't just go in and swing against the first best opponent.

The main thing is strategy. It's not just come in and duke it out and fight.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.

I think of myself as playing against the board, and not against my opponent.

It's far, far better to be prepared: the more you know about the other team, the better.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones