Strategic Play Quotes

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.

I still play my fast-paced style but when the game slows down it allows you to see the little things - the right passes, where to lay the ball up.

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

If you start chasing around trying to get steals for your own benefit, then you really put your defense at a disadvantage. It's not a big thing for me; if it happens, great.

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

Most innovative little board game since Chess.

When I see Lionel Messi play soccer, he lets the game come to him. He lets the game unveil itself to him, then like a lion he eats the whole thing.

It's all about becoming a more well-rounded player and not a one-dimensional player. You might hear someone say, 'Hilton Head sets up well for them.' I don't want that stereotype.

To score runs you have to be pragmatic.

For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

I like to play aggressive.

Ever since I was a little kid, that intrigued me. The game within the game was the biggest thing. A lot of people don't see the little things we do within a game.

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

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.

I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'

You keep playing, you get a lead and build on it. People get mad when you keep playing, but that's part of the game, too.