Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be ab…

- Maurice Ashley

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and …

- Maurice Ashley

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, som…

- Maurice Ashley

My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this w…

- Maurice Ashley

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more int…

- Maurice Ashley

Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book o…

- Maurice Ashley

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing…

- Maurice Ashley

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.

- Maurice Ashley

If the kids get a good grasp of what the main lessons are for chess after two or three years of staying with the game, then you've given them brain f…

- Maurice Ashley