Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
BOBBY FISCHERI have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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Chess is like war on a board
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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