I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
BOBBY FISCHERAll that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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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.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I like to make them squirm.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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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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