Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

I had a dream about you last night... Unfortunately, it wasn't a dream.

Study the past if you would define the future.

It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

Every time I have a bikini wax, Cameron Diaz holds me down.

Quality combines people power and process power.

O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?