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.
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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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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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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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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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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All my games are real
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting 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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You are never too old to play chess!
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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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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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