I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
BOBBY FISCHERI like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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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