Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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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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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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 like to make them squirm.
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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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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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