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.
BOBBY FISCHERWhen I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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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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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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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 usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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All my games are real
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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