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.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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