I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHERWell, 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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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 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 have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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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 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 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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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