These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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