Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
— Bobby Fischer
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.
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.
I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.
There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.
Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
I don't believe in hero worship.
I don't want to look like a bum.
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
Chess is life.
There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.
Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
I was never invited to the White House.
I don't listen to weakies.
I don't believe in psychology.
I am boring. I am boring!
I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
