My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
BOBBY FISCHERThe United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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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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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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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.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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All my games are real
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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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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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