If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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 don’t listen to weakies.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s 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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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 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 remember one thing I learned in school.
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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 like to make them squirm.
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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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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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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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