Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
BOBBY FISCHERI’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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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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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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