Chess Quote by Bobby Fischer

“They agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I want to be world champion. I have achieved it, now I don’t know what to do.”

— Bobby Fischer

“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.”

— Jon Osborne

“To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Someone has to be the best; the champion; the winner. Why not you?”

— Butch Bellah

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully…

— Emanuel Lasker

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

— Anatoly Karpov

“Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!”

— Mikhail Tal

“Every challenge is a chance to become a champion.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He'd always beat me. Of course. I…

— Stephanie Corneliussen