When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
BOBBY FISCHERThe U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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