Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
BOBBY FISCHERGenius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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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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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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All my games are real
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