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 FISCHERAll I want to do, ever, is play chess.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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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.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Chess demands total concentration
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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