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.
BOBBY FISCHERI play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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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.
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