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.

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

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

I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

When I was eleven, I just got good.