Chess demands total concentration
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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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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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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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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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 was never invited to the White House.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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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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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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