I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHERNobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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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…
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I like to make them squirm.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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