Everyone becomes a lot more focused when you come towards the critical stages of the season.
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.
Combination is a soul of chess.
You're always playing the game to reach the ultimate goal.
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game
Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.
There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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.
In covert action you always have to think of the endgame before you start it. We didn’t always do that.
Chess is a matter of daily training.
My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.
Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
In a final, it's winning that counts, it's not the style of play that people remember.
Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending.
HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!
Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.
