I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHERI hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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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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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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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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 don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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