No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I don't study; I create.

You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)

Only Those Who Take Risk, Succeed!

Someone's always saying "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way you're as good as dead.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating.

I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.