These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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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.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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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.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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Chess demands total concentration
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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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.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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