Morphy Quotes

#1. Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

Andrew Soltis

#2. Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#3. Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Mig Greengard

#4. Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

Bobby Fischer

#5. The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#6. It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#7. In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

Garry Kasparov

#8. That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.

Alexander Alekhine

#9. Payback is a bitch, he thought, and I am that bitch. He

Stephen King

#10. Help your pieces so they can help you

Paul Morphy

#11. I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Paul Morphy

#12. I was happy because I made enough money to give to my parents. I made enough money to get married on. I made enough money to enjoy myself a little more than I would have if I didn't have enough money.

Jack Kirby

#13. When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.

Joan Bauer

#14. Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

Paul Morphy

#15. My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

Tom Stoppard

#16. The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

Paul Morphy

#17. It wasn't the first reality show, but 'Survivor' was the first big network hit, and I'm proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, 'Survivor: Amazon.'

Jenna Morasca

#18. There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

Howard Morphy

#19. Checkers is for tramps

Paul Morphy

#20. The only thing scarier than zombies are Nazi zombies.

Scott M. Baker

#21. If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Richard M. DeVos

#22. Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

Henry Rollins

#23. That's not what I asked...I don't care about those boys who might've fumbled around between your legs a time or two. I want to know if you've been with a man.

J.M. Darhower