Jeff Garlin Quotes

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

War strategy is always unique. It is like a chess game. The pieces are always the same but each game is unique

Obviously, in football you can study somebody, but at the same time, once you get out there, I think there's just a natural kind of feel for where you think guys might be or where they're going to go and knowing beforehand what's going to happen. It's just like chess.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.

I find the game mentally challenging and really enjoy the chess match that occurs every week between the offense and the opposing defense.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

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

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

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

Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.