Stephen Leacock Quotes

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

Chess is mental torture.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

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

It's no fun when you lose.

The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

I'd like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can't.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

Losing is tough.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

I just hated to lose.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

I hated to lose.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

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

The disappointment of losing is huge.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.