Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Quotes

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.

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

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

Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

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

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

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.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

When a bowler comes on you want to put him under pressure. He might not allow you to do that but find a way.

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.

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

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

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

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.