Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
BOBBY FISCHERToo many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Chess is like war on a board
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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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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All my games are real
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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