I feel that my chess strengths are still here, ... I believe I can still improve.

I am lucky, ... that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

Chess is mental torture.

All women are inferior to men.

The scale of the man to whom we are bidding farewell today in no way corresponds to the paltry scale of today's authorities.

I have to play an opponent, a very powerful opponent, that studied all my games, that has a unique ability -- the best on the planet -- to collect all this information and analyze that, and I know nothing about him, ... I said 'him.' I meant 'it.'