“Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.”

In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view…but you always want to be counterattacking…a similarity with chess strategy.

Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture…what are your options and what is the best thing to do?

I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

You are never too old to play chess!

I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.