All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERTactics flow from a superior position
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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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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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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