What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.

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.

Many without punishment none without sin.

I wish I could be invisible and just play music and not have to worry about anyone looking at me.

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.

I can change your life, make it so new. Make you never want to go back to the old you.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!