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.
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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You are never too old to play chess!
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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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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Chess is like war on a board
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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 like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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