Able Quote by Bobby Fischer

“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.”

Bobby Fischer

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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.

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I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

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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 have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

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I was never invited to the White House.

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It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in…

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I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

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