People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHERThey spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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 add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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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 don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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