Dave Barry Quotes

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

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.

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.

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.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

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.

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

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

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

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

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

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

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.

Chess is mental torture.

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

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

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.

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

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.

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