I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

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

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

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

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Some people are more terrorist than others

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'