I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERMy main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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 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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I was never invited to the White House.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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