Ryan Fitzpatrick Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

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

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

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.

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

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

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

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

Chess is a game of stimulation.

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.

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

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

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.