I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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 don’t listen to weakies.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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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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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 want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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