This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
BOBBY FISCHERWell, 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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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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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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