I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
BOBBY FISCHERUltimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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