If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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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 am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Chess is like war on a board
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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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 hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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 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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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