I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

I don't believe in hero worship.

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

I don't listen to weakies.