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?
BOBBY FISCHERI like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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 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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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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.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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I don’t listen to weakies.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to 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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