Bobby Fischer Quotes - Page 5

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• If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Chess Game, Playing Chess

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• The Russians have fixed world chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  World, Chess, Fixed

  Bobby Fischer, Leonard Barden (1972). “Bobby Fischer's Chess Games”

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Morning, Home, Chess

  "Scorecard" by Robert H. Boyle, www.si.com. November 21, 1977.

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Baseball, Football, Country

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. September 11, 2001.

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Games, Play

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want, Chess

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• I add status to any tournament I attend.

  Bobby Fischer

  Add, Chess, Tournaments

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• Chess is like war on a board

  Bobby Fischer

  War, Boards, Chess

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Champion, World, Chess

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• Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Mean, Winning

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• When I was eleven, I just got good.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Chess, Eleven

  "My 60 Memorable Games". Book by Bobby Fischer, 1969.

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• If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Alekhine, Ifs

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• Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Chess, Willing

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess Game, Needs, World

  Interview by William Lombardy, 1972.

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• You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

  Bobby Fischer

  Book, Chess, Memorization

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

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• I don't believe in psychology.

  Bobby Fischer

  Believe, Psychology, Don't Believe

  "Bobby Fischer: from prodigy to pariah" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

  Bobby Fischer

  Moving, Learning, Chess

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Player, Years

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• Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

  Bobby Fischer

  Black And White, Play, Color

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• Different people feel differently about resigning

  Bobby Fischer

  People, Different, Chess

  Bobby Fischer (2012). “My 60 Memorable Games: chess tactics, chess strategies with Bobby Fischer”, Pavilion Books

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• People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

  Bobby Fischer

  Years, People, Fifteen

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• 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 Fischer

  Thinking, World, Chess

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• I was never invited to the White House.

  Bobby Fischer

  White, House, Invited

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Mean, Thinking, Phony

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