Quotes About Checkers

#1. Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#2. The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

Home Run Baker

#3. Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.

Ronald Kessler

#4. Frank," Andy said slowly, "I don't think the hellspawn wants to play checkers with you.

J.A. Konrath

#5. I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Chelsea Clinton

#6. I was on the train the other day, and I heard somebody say, I'm really good at checkers. That's the same thing as saying, I'm not good at very many things.

Demetri Martin

#7. My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

Emo Philips

#8. With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.

Barry Lyga

#10. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

Courtney Love

#11. I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.

Derek Jeter

#12. I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess

Billy Joe Shaver

#13. Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#14. Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

Heraclitus

#15. The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

Bob Costas

#16. It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

Isabel Wilkerson

#17. Sorry, Trouble, Candy Land, Uno, and checkers

Shannon Brown

#18. Then you'll love chess. Chess is checkers on steroids.

Rick Yancey

#19. Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

Johnny Moss

#20. There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

Michael Shermer

#21. All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

Terry Gross

#22. Cash or check, cash or check. Cash is better than check. Check, check, check, have a bowl of checkers, but keep a plate for chess.

Mary E. Warner

#23. Checkers is for tramps

Paul Morphy

#24. Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

Wahida Clark

#25. As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.

Sydney Schanberg

#26. It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.

Jon Stewart

#27. Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

Garry Kasparov

#28. We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

Mitt Romney

#29. The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.

Jimmy Fallon

#30. These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Kobe Bryant

#31. If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

Mark Miller

#32. While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

Orson Scott Card

#33. There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.

Mark Billingham

#34. He's an eighteen-year-old boy and this is his wedding night. I don't think he's taking me home to play checkers.

Amy Engel

#35. He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.

Karin Slaughter

#36. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

Neil Gaiman

#37. Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

Ice-T

#38. He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

Barbara Kingsolver

#39. LOVE is like Playing Checkers. You have to know which Man to MOVE.

Moms Mabley

#40. You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board.

Mark Miller

#41. What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children.

Toni Morrison

#42. I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

Dennis Miller

#43. Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

Demetri Martin

#44. I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose

Josh Stern