What is your favorite chess quote?

"I just move the little wooden things" - Miles

"Every pawn is a potential queen."  ~ James Mason 

it also fits very good his melten glock and  the weird stories with him and his brother

"Think about tactics on your time and think about strategy on your opponent's time"

I don't remember who said that...

"When the game is over the king and pawn go into the same box." 

resigned

Book by H.Hunvald, " Chess, quotations from the masters " , PPPress 1972,   62 pages, 7 euro at  www.schaakboek.nl in Holland 

who quotes themselves?

"why do people quote themselves?" T4yy1b123

"Passed pawns are criminals who ought to be punished"

This is my favourite quote. But I don't know who gave it.

nimzovich Short quoted it pretty often, wich is weird he asked Trent the same question 2 if he knew the quote and Trent was like no i dont know what he said...

Actually its goes: A passed pawn is a criminal that must be put under lock and key.

"Marriage is like taking a pawn on b2 in Sicilian Najdorf" - Vassily Ivanchuk

Fischer used to do that all the time and never married.lol.

Thank you now you just reminded me of my all time Fischer quote.

"I either get a car or get a wife" Fischer.

Actually i think he said get married, but wife definetly sounds funnier .

"I either get married or get my teeth fixed."  Bobby Fischer 

"We were like bishops of opposite colors." Comment from Boris Spassky after divorce from his wife...

"The looser always win the post morten"

"Your game is only as good your worst move"

"Never make a bad move quickly"

by D. Heisman

"In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors." - Aaron Nimzowitsch

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind." - Blaise Pascal

"Good positions don't win games, good moves do." - Gerald Abrahams

You might be a chess player if you hear the term "exposed bishop" and you don't think about sex.