I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHERPsychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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