The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

I don't study; I create.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.