Mark Lawrence Quotes

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

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

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

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

There's no extra significance on beating a certain player. It's kind of like golf. You're just out there playing, and whatever ends up happening ends up happening.

Feelings can't be a part of this game.

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.

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

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

Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

Cynics criticize and winners analyze.

It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.

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.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

He who leaves the game wins it.

The best way to win is to not need to.

The game cannot be won, only played.

I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.

A man's idee in a card game is war

You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

Lie to yourself until it's true.