Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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