If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHERConcentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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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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All my games are real
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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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