I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
BOBBY FISCHERYour body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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.
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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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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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.
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