Carlsen Chess Quotes

#1. Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

Magnus Carlsen

#2. I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.

Magnus Carlsen

#3. I played like a child.

Magnus Carlsen

#4. Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

Magnus Carlsen

#5. Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

Magnus Carlsen

#6. It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

Magnus Carlsen

#7. Anthropology provides Archer with terminology to expose the ferocity and, more important, the hypocrisy characterizing his prosperous, upper-class social community.

Edith Wharton

#8. Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

Magnus Carlsen

#9. The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry.

Magnus Carlsen

#10. I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

Magnus Carlsen

#11. I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Magnus Carlsen

#12. I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

Magnus Carlsen

#13. I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

Magnus Carlsen

#14. I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

Magnus Carlsen

#15. I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

Magnus Carlsen

#16. Over, under, around, or through, there's always a way. You don't give up and you never give in. They can scar your body and take your freedom, but only you can surrender your heart and soul. Nothing is worth compromising yourself for. Stand fast and stand true. Always.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

Magnus Carlsen

#18. I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

Magnus Carlsen

#19. Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

Magnus Carlsen

#20. Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

Rufino Tamayo

#21. This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.

Charlie Pierce

#22. My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

Magnus Carlsen

#23. I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that you do have to do things that are necessarily not your genre.

Lee DeWyze

#24. One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

Magnus Carlsen

#25. I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.

Magnus Carlsen

#26. Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Magnus Carlsen

#27. Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [ ... ] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.

Alejandro Ramirez