I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started..

There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win….

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up.

You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can..

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage.

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me….

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems..

Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the ni….

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness..

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went alon….

That's another great thing about Think Like a Man picture. The cast is predominantly African-American, but color is never really an issue in the film….

Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis..

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player..

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me..

I always think it's best to pretend you're in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have go….

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment..

... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and on….

I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, wh….

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fi….

There were 31 teams that didn't think I was as good as the guys taken off the board. That's no disrespect to the talented players that they are, but ….