Magnus Carlsen Quotes

No, I've never had a job other than being a chess player.

A lot of people see a future where you could make a living as a chess player.

I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

I played professional tennis for about six years and I played football and handball in school as well.

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.

When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.

I am really proud to HAVE been an Arsenal player.

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.

They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.

Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.

When you've been in the business 5-years, as a person, it's like you're 5-years old - like a child. 10-years and you're 10-years old, 20... Etcetera. That's how I measure maturity in this industry.

I can accomplish all those. It's really awkward, kind of, for me coming out here and being in a competitive golf atmosphere. I don't get to do it but once a year, except my, like, local tournaments back home in Oakland.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.