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.
BOBBY FISCHERThese 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!
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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 give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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 like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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