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.
BOBBY FISCHERAll I ever want to do is just play chess.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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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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 grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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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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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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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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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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