All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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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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.
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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 hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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I like to make them squirm.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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