"Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime."

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Source : Simen Agdestein (2013). “How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games”, p.57, New In Chess

Simen Agdestein

#Real Quotes #Passion Quotes #Fate Quotes

“I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.”
“'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.”
“I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.”
“Unity should be the cornerstone of relations”
“It was moving, but so absurd that I nearly laughed out loud. I imagined a new line of Hallmark cards: "Thank you for not killing my boyfriend, even if it risks killing you.”
“I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.”
“Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.”
“If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.”

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