55 Quotes by Hikaru Nakamura

No matter how badly you play, unless you make a flat-out blunder, there's always going to be some narrow path to being able to save the game and draw instead of losing.

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of chess.

Because of the Internet, chess is not about your nationality or your background. Anyone can get good now.

I had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn't really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to see what else is out there for me. But after about six or seven months away from the game, I just decided that the whole college life wasn't for me and that's why I decided to come back.

It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to do what I can to raise the profile of chess.

I've won the U.S. Championship. I've won a lot of tournaments.

There is a perspective out there that I'm very much all about myself... I just live with it.

I love the game. I love everything that it can do for people. It's not all about me.

I want to be ranked in the top 100 players. If I can achieve that, I'll think about the world championship.