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.
BOBBY FISCHERThe system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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