There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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 have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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.
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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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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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 don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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