If you don’t believe in victory you have no business sitting down at a chess board.

I love all positions. Give me a difficult positional game, I will play it. Give me a bad position, I will defend it. Openings, endgames, complicated positions, dull draws, I love them and I will do my very best. But totally won positions, I cannot stand them.

Any virtue can become a vice if taken to extreme.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go for a week without a drink.

Hard en bitter is de wereld.