All I ever want to do is just play chess.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

At times we feel something is going to pierce the silence we are living in; after a while we realize it's the silence.

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.