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.
BOBBY FISCHERNothing is so healing as the human touch.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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