When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

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

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

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.

Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.