Bobby Fischer Quotes - Page 2

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• Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

  Bobby Fischer

  Psychology, Chess, Facts

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• All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want, Playing Chess

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• Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

  Bobby Fischer

  Law, Reporters

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• Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

  Bobby Fischer

  Suffering, Ease, Humans

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• Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

  Bobby Fischer

  Taken, Games, Class

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, 1961.

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Evil, United States, World

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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? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

  Bobby Fischer

  Kids, People, Chess

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• I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.

  Bobby Fischer

  Order, Freedom Of Speech, Too Late

  YouTube Chanel "Peter Wolf"/ "Bobby Fischer tells the truth and nothing but the truth", www.youtube.com. September 19, 2007.

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• Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation - every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Believe, Winning

  Svetozar Gligorić, Bobby Fischer, Boris Vasilyevich Spassky (1972). “Fischer v Spassky: the World Chess Championship Match, 1972”

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• I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.

  Bobby Fischer

  Wells, Knows, Can Do

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• You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

  Bobby Fischer

  Learning, Games, Chess Game

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• I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

  Bobby Fischer

  Book, Firsts, Stolen

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. January 27, 2002.

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• Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

  Bobby Fischer

  Simple, Player, Games

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• I like to make them squirm.

  Bobby Fischer

  Psychology, Chess

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• I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Play, Medicine

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• Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

  Bobby Fischer

  Ducks, Knowing, Judgement

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• Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Chess Game, Finals

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• I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

  Bobby Fischer

  Would Be, World, Changed

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, 1961.

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• Blitz chess kills your ideas.

  Bobby Fischer

  Ideas, Chess, Blitz

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Secret, Needs, Chess

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

  Bobby Fischer

  Women, Moving, Knights

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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

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess Game, Training, Mind

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Games, Tragedy

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• I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

  Bobby Fischer

  Government, Political, Asylums

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• I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

  Bobby Fischer

  School, Remember, One Thing

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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