If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.