I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

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

The Russians have fixed world chess.

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

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.

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