I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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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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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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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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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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