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.
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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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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All my games are real
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I 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.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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