Eric Sykes Quotes
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.Eric Sykes
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I came from the bottom. Now I'm the main event and UFC champion.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
Fedor Emelianenko -
My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.
Queen Latifah -
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.
V. E. Schwab -
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
Jackie Stewart -
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
Usain Bolt
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
Victoria Pendleton -
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
Dan Millman -
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
Magnus Carlsen -
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Daley Thompson -
I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.
Rafael dos Anjos -
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
Magnus Carlsen -
I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
Christopher Meloni -
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
Max Euwe -
This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.
Artur Davis
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Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.
Pal Benko -
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!
Maria Semple -
Never judge someone based on what you've heard.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.
Canelo Alvarez -
There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe.
Albert Einstein -
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
Eric Sykes