To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Chess is imagination.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

When Javy Baez goes out there, man, you saw him before the game sitting on the bench, saw him waving into the camera, he's just being himself. I love that.

My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.

Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

I'll always be the catman.