Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

Chess demands total concentration

I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.

They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.

I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.