Bobby Fischer Quotes About Championships

Quotes about: Championships

• 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”

• I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Hate, Fighting, Winning

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Years, Play

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