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.

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

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'm more interested in the games than the people.

Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous

Heart stop aching, mind stop thinking.

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.