Max Euwe Quotes
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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We always go into a game to win.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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The game is meant to be fun.
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.
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Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
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Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.
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My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.
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Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
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You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.
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The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.
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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
