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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Bobby Fischer

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Facts Psychology
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Player Winning Years
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Championship Chess Game Seriously
Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mind Sometimes Stills
It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Littles Machines
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ease Humans Suffering
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess Player
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success
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?
BOBBY FISCHER

Black Color Play White
I 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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Different Garbage Genius Happen Play
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 FISCHER

Lying Moving Religious
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
BOBBY FISCHER

Death Out Want Wiped
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

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