There are so many games that I've seen that I've learned from. I never - that's also part of the same - never single out a particular player or a particular game.

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.

Love is in your heart.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

I'll let her go. I won't let her go. I have to let her go. I can't let her go. I can let her go. I don't... want to let her go.

I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it.

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

The two heart-grey puddles: two mouthsfull of silence.

lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.

I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

All that occurs within the walls of the temple is uplifting and enobling.