People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHERAll I ever want to do is just play chess.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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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 my games are real
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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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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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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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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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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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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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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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