Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

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

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.