Alex Higgins Quotes

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

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.

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.

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

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

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

When you're calculating variations - especially long ones - it really helps to visualize the board.

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 learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

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

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.

Chess demands total concentration

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.

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

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.

Chess is mental torture.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

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

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.