The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal Quotes

“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and disappointments are still sufficiently fresh in my mind. Much as I would like to, I cannot say this about these few games which will be given below. In fact, if the annotator should begin to use phrases of the type: 'in reply to...I had worked out the following variation...', the reader will rightly say 'Grandmaster, you are showing off', since the 'oldest' of these games is now more than 25 years old, and even the 'newest' more than 20. Therefore, I would ask you not to regard the following 'stylised' annotations too severely. ”
― Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

“...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.

JOURNALIST. And your plans.
PLAYER. To play!”
― Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal