Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

He who leaves the game wins it.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

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.

The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

So often, the best way to figure out who has a shot at winning is by eliminating those that you're pretty sure don't.

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability, and manual dexterity. I won almost two whole talents before they stopped inviting me back to their games.

In this game you only lose when you fight back

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

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

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

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

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

Sooner or later, all games become serious.