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

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

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.

The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.

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

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

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.