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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More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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You are never too old to play chess!
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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.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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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 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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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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.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Chess demands total concentration
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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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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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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