I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHERThese 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!
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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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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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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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 object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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The 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…
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