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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.”

Bobby Fischer

1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)

“I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.”

Bobby Fischer

Source: In Chess Digest Magazine, Vol. 4 (1971), p. 263

World

“The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian… It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.”

Bobby Fischer

Interview en-route to Iceland, March 24 2005 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryuMf8qZ0g
2000s

Parting , Country

“I have a minus score (against Spassky). I lost 3 and drew 2. I was better than him when I lost those games. I pressed for the win. My overall tournament record is much better than his. I'm not afraid of him, he's afraid of me.”

Bobby Fischer

Interview prior to world championship match, 1972 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnAQN_iwNoA
1970s

Game

“I had some personal problems, and I started listening to a lot of radio ministers. I listened every Sunday all day, flipping the dial up and back. So, I heard just about every guy on Sunday. And then I heard Mr. Armstrong, and I said, "Ah, God has finally shown me the one, I guess."”

Bobby Fischer

1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)

God , Guy , Problem , Personality

“The United States is evil. There's this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil – the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers.”

Bobby Fischer

Press conference in Iceland, March 25 2005 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Fischer_clips_hair_but_not_views.htm
2000s

Evil

“Patzer sees a check, gives a check.”

Bobby Fischer

1960s, My 60 Memorable Games (1969)

“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.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, January 27 2002 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_20_1.MP3
2000s

God , Books

“I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.”

Bobby Fischer

1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

World , Change , Personality

“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 Fischer

1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

Love , Girl , Star

“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.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, July 6 2001 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_18_3.MP3
2000s

“I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.”

Bobby Fischer

Radio Interview, June 27 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_08_3.MP3
1990s

Study

“In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.”

Bobby Fischer

A bust to the King's Gambit http://academicchess.org/images/pdf/chessgames/fischerbust.pdf (1960)
1960s

“Tactics flow from a positionally superior game.”

Bobby Fischer

1960s, My 60 Memorable Games (1969)

Game

“Part Jewish. My mother is Jewish.”

Bobby Fischer

responding to the question "You're Jewish, aren't you?"
1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

Parting

“I suggest rather than fraudulently misrepresenting me to be a Jew
.. you try to promote your religion on its own merits--if indeed it has any!”

Bobby Fischer

1980s, 1984 letter to Encyclopedia Judaica
Source: from 2nd paragraph, verified December 2014 article by Saul Jay Singer of JewishPress.com https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/fischer-and-spassky-two-infamous-jewish-anti-semites/2014/12/26/

Religion

“Knowing what I do about Judaism, I was naturally distressed to see that you have erroneously featured me as a Jew
.. I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.”

Bobby Fischer

1980s, 1984 letter to Encyclopedia Judaica
Source: from 1st paragraph, verified page 137 of "White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard" by Daniel Johnson, published 2008 https://books.google.ca/books?id=7Lzd7SaQA_YC&pg=PA137

Nature

“Best by test.”

Bobby Fischer book My 60 Memorable Games

1960s, My 60 Memorable Games (1969)