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.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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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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I like to make them squirm.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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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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Chess is like war on a board
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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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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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