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.
BOBBY FISCHERAmericans 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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!
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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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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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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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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