All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERAmericans 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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