What is your favorite chess quote?

At the candidates tournament I also heard a good one. I thought it was Svidler who recalls a conversation with Kasparov a couple of years ago. Kasparov, who followed the match Svidler vs Ivanchuk comes after the match to the table and has an question for him:

Kasparov: Why did you play that move?

Svidler: Well, there's a little trick if...

Kasparov: You play Ivanchuk, there's no trick. Just play the best possible move!

The reason why I like this story, is because I like to go for tricks and traps aswell. Especially when I play against someone who is 200 points lower rated. 

Yes I just looked it up. Svidlers interview after the round 11. Svidler memorises his game against Ivanchuk in linneares. With just 5 seconds on the clock (for Chucky), he was doubting between two moves. The first one was objectively the better one, but the second move contained a difficult trap which would be hard to spot. Svidler taught, well with just 5 seconds on the clock, why not go for the trap? Ofcourse nothing good camed out of it and Svidler lost the game.

After the game, Kasparov come to him and ask: "What where you doing?"

Svidler responded: Well yeah, there's this trap there

Kasparov: You are playing Ivanchuk, what trap?! You just need to play the best moves and you go on.

Here the video. Starts at 9:20: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1504418/events/1984770/videos/15197116

The international was a interesting experience I arrived confused played strange and left extremely horney. GM ???

Oh man I read through 9 pages of quotes! And still by far the very best quote was not mentioned. 

Now I can't remember how it went exactly, and I can't remember if it was Tarrasch but I think it was. I tried looking for the quote but couldn't find it.

So I apolgoize for my butcher job of paraphrasing

"That first game I lost becasue I was distracted, the second I lost because I  had a headache, the third my opponent just got lucky, and the fourth...well you can't expect me to win them all!"

That hanging pawn is a gambit....

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.  --  Kasparov before his 1993 PCA World Championship match with Nigel Short.

some of my favourites are from Dr Tarrasch

• "Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game"
• "Many have become Chess Masters, but no one the Master of Chess"
• "Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis, but now he makes a fatal error - he begins to use his own head"
• "It is not enough to be a good player - one must also play well"

The difference between a top GM and an amateur is not the standard of their good moves, but the standard of their bad moves.
-madhacker

The mistakes are there waiting to be made.  Tartakower.

What a pitty Short didn't win the match! What laughter this would have been! 

Good thing he didn't play Tal.

''Chess first of all teach you to be objective.'' Alexander Alekhine

i guess no1 told kasparov that.

"There are three things necessary to a Gentleman, his Harp, his Cloak and a Chess Board."--Hywel Dda

"The boy (then a 12-year-old named Anatoly Karpov) doesn't have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession." - Mikhail Botvinnik

I read somewhere that when Tal lost his World Championship title, he called his mother on the phone and told her: "Mother, today i became the youngest ex-World Champion!"

"You must take your opponent in a deep dark forest where 2+2=5 and the path leading out is only wide enough for one"-Mikhail Tal.

Recently at the Candidates 2013, post-game Aronian after losing to Svidler said something like: "....g5 is not a bad move... except that it's losing." I found that pretty funny.

I removed, was stupid comment.