I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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