If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHERWell, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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 remember one thing I learned in school.
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