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.
BOBBY FISCHERSometimes 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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