Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
BOBBY FISCHERI am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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 was never invited to the White House.
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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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I don’t believe in psychology.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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