All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERNothing eases suffering like human touch.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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 give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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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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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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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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These 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!
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