I like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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All my games are real
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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