I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.

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.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

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.