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

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

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.

Different people feel differently about resigning

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