When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Courage is the goal of cowards.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.