I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here Yugoslavia to play chess and nothing else.

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

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

First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.

I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind.

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

To get squares you have to give up squares.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.