Emanuel Lasker Quotes

Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.

Emanuel Lasker

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• I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Choice
  • Tennis

• I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Like
  • Always

• Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Attention
  • Player

• For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Star

• 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I am not a player.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Player

• Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • Life
  • Football
  • Player

• As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • House
  • Player

• I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Long
  • Game
  • Respect

• I don't care if you're purple. If you're making a catch or going to go down, you could be silver. I couldn't care less, if you're making those plays for the team. If you're a selfless player, nobody pays attention to that at all. White, black, silver, pink, it doesn't matter to me.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Black
  • Team
  • Attention

• To change Washington, you need to change the women's player list.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Player

• We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

  

  David Crane
  • Writing
  • She
  • Game

• Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Player
  • Period

• I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Country
  • American
  • Small

• Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I'm kind of working my way up. I'm not ranked in the top 100 or anything.'

  

  James Roday
  • Up
  • She
  • Girl

• Obviously, I love Steph Curry. I think he's dope and a really cool player to watch.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Cool
  • Player
  • Dope

• It's very stressful being the No. 1 player in the world. You're in the limelight a lot. You've got more things to do when you get to tournaments, more things to do off weeks. But I wouldn't change it in any way because this is exactly where I want to be. I want to try and stay here as long as I can while I can because nothing beats this feeling.

  

  Jason Day
  • World
  • Long
  • Feeling

• I'm a Detroit player, they set styles.

  

  Big Sean
  • Player

• Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

  

  Michael Moriarty
  • American
  • Dream
  • Loses

• I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Up
  • Growing
  • New

• In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps.

  

  Phil LaMarr
  • Different
  • Words

• In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Life
  • Death
  • Culture

• There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Things
  • Human

• Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Player
  • Believed
  • University