Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

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

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

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

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.

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.