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.
BOBBY FISCHERChess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Chess demands total concentration
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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