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 FISCHERI like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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!
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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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 don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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