My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHERI like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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 have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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 would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Chess is like war on a board
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I was never invited to the White House.
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