Graeme Souness Quotes

I understand now the different games and the different approaches that you need to take at different times, with different styles of play.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

In a sprint you make 100 decisions a second. What if X goes now and Y goes then? Should I take this gap or that one? You have to be sharp. Over time it becomes instinct.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

All I ever try and do in any game is play to how I see the situation.

Poker is about understanding human behavior and managing emotions - yours and the other guy's. That's huge in poker, and it's huge in business.

I love keeping. I'm in the game all the time. I see angles that I wouldn't normally see, and I feel part of what the captain does.

You try to make the decisions that you think are best in realtime.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

Every GM will tell you it's an instinct. It's an instinct to be patient, to react, or act, or not to do anything at all. It just comes. What I can say is you must have a plan and a goal and a way to do things. At the end of the day, it's an instinct. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad.

In some times of the game, you have to be more simple.

As a chess player I learn to adapt to new situations and always try to make the best move without looking back or asking why and how I ended up in a situation I ended up in.

The more games you play, the more game management you learn.

Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end.

I have to do a better job of picking the spots where I want to attack and picking the right moment when I need to attack.

You can't just shoot your way out of every scenario in 'Resident Evil' games. You have to use your intelligence.

When there's something we weren't prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.

I feel no matter who I'm going against that I can get open in a number of ways.