There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
BOBBY FISCHERThe United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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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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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