I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
BOBBY FISCHERThey asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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