I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.

The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.