I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove 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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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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I don’t listen to weakies.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Chess is like war on a board
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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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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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 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.
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