I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth

(attributed to Steinitz and quoted after Korchnoi defeated Caruana in 2011)

Nowadays I just play my moves quickly. I don’t think that thinking helps a lot….ninety percent of the time my instinct should be right.

(Speelman in British Chess Magazine)

If you don’t try to win so quickly you win more games… There’s quite strong repulsion from a win. If you go too directly towards it, it often makes it very difficult.

(Speelman in British Chess Magazine)

It is really a superior man who can watch a game of chess and remain silent

(Chinese proverb)

Chess is in general a drawn game, and often you have to choose continuations which are more to your taste.

(Kramnik in New in Chess)

It always ends in a draw. It’s the basic rule of computer chess.

(Vachier-Lagrave during his Masterclass in Gibraltor)

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

(Carlsen)