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.
BOBBY FISCHEROur 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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I like to make them squirm.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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