Nigel Short's Quotes

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

If God is watching us, we might as well be interesting.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?