A biography for Bobby Fischerhasn’t been written yet.
“Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.”
“I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.”
“I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.”
“I was never invited to the White House.”
“America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.”
“I don't listen to weakies.”
“Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.”
“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.”
“Nothing eases suffering like human touch.”
“I don't want to look like a bum.”
“I don't believe in hero worship.”
“I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.”
“I don't remember one thing I learned in school.”
“There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.”
“Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.”
“I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.”
“I like the moment when I break a man's ego.”
“Nothing is so healing as the human touch.”
“Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.”
“All I want to do, ever, is play chess.”