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 was never invited to the White House.

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

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

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