Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.
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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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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov
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You should change your tennis depending on the surface. For me, the most difficult thing on grass is how to move, like sliding to get a ball.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.
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I'm concerned about the future of football, because we have paid a lot of attention to concussions. We are more aware of concussions. But it's really the repetitive minor injuries, the ones that are asymptomatic that occur on almost every play of the game, the sub-concussive hits: that's the big problem for football.
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The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.
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Tennis is physical chess.
