Can someone explain this Chess quote?

I would say this quote is the same as the saying "leading your target" in trap shooting. If you shoot where the skeet is at, your going to miss.

"I move to where the King is going to be, not to where he has been".

That is a paraphrase of the greatest hockey player Wayne Gretzky' quote:

"I move to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been".

It means moving forward only , attack , climb up no returning back, no retreating etc...

Interesting similarity. I wonder which one came first. 

The only thing mystifying to me is how you think you know it must be Anand who said it.  It could have been anyone.

Clearly, as previously explained by others, it pertains to constructing a mating net if it was specifically written about Chess.

It could also have been written by Alexander the Great about the Battle of Issus in 333 BC where he correctly realized that a retreat in the middle of the field would bring Persian King Darius there and the sudden concentrated attack there rattled the coward Darius and sent him into flight - and the Persian Army was routed by confusion.

It could also have been written by William the Conqueror in 1066 AD, who moved on the towns around Hastings instead of moving toward English King Harold's Army near Stamford Bridge, knowing Harold would rush an exhausted army to the south.

In other words, it could have been said by almost anyone!

I think it simply means that you should prepare for the future... That it's better to wait and set-up a trap where your opponent is going to move, than chase after him following him through the places where he's already been

Oh, I hadn't seen the answer of mikecarnevale, sounds like a great example to me

But lets be realistic. It was most likely Anand. 

"not to where it has been" was just sloppily tacked on at the end for semantic effect. Only the first part makes sense. I assume you made up the quote yourself.

@MickinMD
But that's the easiest question to answer. He says it's Anand because he's a troll and wants to provoke posts like yours.

That was actually a quote from a Bruce Lee film, that your quote and this thread reminded me of. Sorry, carry on!

I know we all like a good mystery, but I'll spoil it. It was Tom Landry, the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. 

I'm a big fan of Johan Cruyff, he was the Wayne Gretzky of football. 

Fischer said that Alekhine's game were simple:  "He always wanted a superior center; he maneuvered his pieces toward the King side, and around teh twenty-fifth move, began to mate his opponent." http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/fischer4.html

This is how I see the quote, the pieces have to be in the area to start a mating attack.  Based upon the opening you have a good idea of where the King will be, so moving them there is a good idea.

In fact it was Wally Gretzky who drilled young Wayne on fundamentals of smart hockey. That was in 1960's - Anand was not yet born.

Seems like something Larry Bird could have said too.

Larry Bird is great, super quotable. But not this time. 

Reminds me of watching Troy Polamalu (defensive American football player).

Play after play, it's as if he knew where the ball was going to be. Left, right, deep, shallow, it's like he magically appeared a second or two after a ball was caught.

It's a quote from a beginner called Bobby Blunder. He was 4 queens up at the time and accidentally stalemated his opponent two moves after he said it.

Is it?