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 FISCHERYour body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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 don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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 believe in psychology.
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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