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.
BOBBY FISCHERThe 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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 believe in psychology.
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Chess demands total concentration
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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