Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
BOBBY FISCHERI want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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.
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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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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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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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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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