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 FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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