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 studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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All my games are real
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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You are never too old to play chess!
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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