I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHERTeach 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?
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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You are never too old to play chess!
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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 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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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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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 want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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