Jan Timman Quotes

When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.

Jan Timman

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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Jackie Robinson
- Money
- Help
- Mother
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Irwin Shaw
- Great
- Short
- Early
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
- Guitar
- Just
- Studying
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

Danica McKellar
- School
- Fun
- High
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Fisher Stevens
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

Carl Van Vechten
- Remember
- Man
- Friend