55 Quotes by Hikaru Nakamura

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

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

In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.

Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it. I lost a lot of games when I first started.

I'm into hiking and mountains and I follow hockey and basketball pretty avidly.

I play quite a bit of tennis on the side.

I don't consider myself a nerd.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

Everybody uses computers to train so much now that the first nine or 10 moves of a match are made without thinking.