When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.