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

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.

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'm more interested in the games than the people.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.

I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

For what it will make of you to achieve it.

The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.