"[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf."

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

— Paolo Giordano