Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
Chess is a test of wills.
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.
A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame. . . an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
I was unlucky, like my country.
The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.
Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!
I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.