A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse.

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.