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 FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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 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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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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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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I like to make them squirm.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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