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.
BOBBY FISCHERI was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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All I want to do, ever, is 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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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 want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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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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