Celebrity Quotes

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.