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.”

“I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.”

“I don't want to look like a bum.”

“Chess is life.”

“All I want to do, ever, is play chess.”

“I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.”

“Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.”

“Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.”

“I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.”

“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.”

“America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.”