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.
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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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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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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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