There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

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

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

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.