Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

I don't study; I create.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.