I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Chess is life.

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

I am boring. I am boring!

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

I don't believe in hero worship.

I don't believe in psychology.

I don't listen to weakies.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

I don't want to look like a bum.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.

I was never invited to the White House.

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.

Chess is like war on a board.

Chess demands total concentration.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game.

Thats what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson the next day he gives you one.

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.