Quotes About Chess Boxing

#1. Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

Hans Kmoch

#2. Working is a great distraction technique.

Phyllis Logan

#3. A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Emo Philips

#4. It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This
" I held out my hands "
this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

Louis L'Amour

#5. Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

Vitali Klitschko

#6. It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

#8. Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.

Wladimir Klitschko

#9. It's like my mind knows to stay as far away from him as possible ... but my bones, my skin quiver in his presence.

David Estes

#10. In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Lennox Lewis

#11. Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

Augusten Burroughs

#12. Lot of people wondering if John Kerry supports gay marriages. Here's a hint ... he gets $1,000 haircuts.

Craig Kilborn

#13. Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

Budd Schulberg

#14. The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.

Yasser Seirawan

#15. Time doesn't really soften anything. Memories heave up, you know. Still sharp."
"Forgetting takes practice," says Enid. "You have to work at it.

Helen Humphreys

#16. All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Thomas Wolfe

#17. It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

Jimmy Smits

#18. Now nobody will begin to understand Thomas philosophy, or indeed Catholic philosophy, who does not realize that the primary and fundamental part of it is entirely the praise of Life, the praise of Being, the praise of God as the creator of the world.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

David Norton

#20. I wandered out like a haggard ghost, and there she was, Frisco - long, bleak streets with trolley wires all shrouded in fog and whiteness. I stumbled around a few blocks. Weird bums (Mission and Third) asked me for dimes in the dawn.

Jack Kerouac

#21. Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

Vijender Singh

#22. I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

Robert Mundell