Dave Regis quotes

“Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever”
-- Dave Regis

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“I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.”

“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.”

“Attack! Always Attack!”

“Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.”

“Chess is not only knowledge and logic”

“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”

Source : Attributed to Alexander Alekhine in David Hooper and ‎Kenneth Whyld "The Oxford companion to chess" (p. 8), 1996.

“Combination is a soul of chess.”

“Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.”

“I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action.”

“We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org