I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

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 don't listen to weakies.

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

Chess is like war on a board