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.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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