| Quote | Author | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
Self-confidence is very important. If you don’t think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them. |
Magnus Carlsen | born 1990 | |
If you look at it historically, you see that what the religious tend to fear in drug use is a rival sense of transcendence. |
Johann Hari | born 1979 | |
I hate to lose more than I love to win. |
Jimmy Connors | born 1952 | |
Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you. |
Irving Berlin | 1888 – 1989 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. |
William Sloane Coffin | 1924 – 2006 | |
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s OK to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless. |
Magnus Carlsen | born 1990 | |
She smiled in defeat with unconquerable eyes. |
Atticus | Atticus is the anonymous New York Times Bestselling author of Love Her Wild, The Dark Between Stars and The Truth About Magic. | |
The rules of the game Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go. |
Emanuel Lasker | 1868 – 1941 | |
Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will. |
John von Neumann | 1903 – 1957 | |
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. |
Francis Bacon | 1561 – 1626 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Often time the person who knows they can’t win speaks the most freely. |
Jon Stewart | born 1962 |