People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHERI like to make them squirm.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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The 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.
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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 am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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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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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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