Mental Sport Quotes

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things. It's a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Golf is so mental. It gets my mind right before the game.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

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.

I think the biggest thing that I learned, and why I've fallen in love with baseball, is how mental of a game it is. It's such a mental sport, and it's beautiful. I think definitely the mental aspect, the stats, and the mathematics, that, to me, really blew me away.

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

It's more of a mental sport because I know I can push harder than someone who doesn't know what his body can do.