I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
BOBBY FISCHERSo if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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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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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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 like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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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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I don’t believe in psychology.
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I like to make them squirm.
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Well, 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.
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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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