Bobby Fischer Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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 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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• Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

  Bobby Fischer

  Relationship, Sheep, People

  "Bobby Fischer Speaks Out!". Interview with Len Zola, Ambassador Report Magazine, hwarmstrong.com. 1977.

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• Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

  Bobby Fischer

  Thinking, Chess Game, Losing

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• Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

  Bobby Fischer

  Law, Reporters

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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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• Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. 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!

  Bobby Fischer

  Dog, Book, Games

  Bobby Fischer's remarks at the press conference, September 1, 1992.

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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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Girl, Stars, Writing

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

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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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• I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

  Bobby Fischer

  Book, People, Dull

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

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Learning, Games, Chess Game

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want, Playing Chess

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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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• Blitz chess kills your ideas.

  Bobby Fischer

  Ideas, Chess, Blitz

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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. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Chess Game, People

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. June 27, 1999.

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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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• 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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• Chess demands total concentration

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Demand, Chess

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• That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

  Bobby Fischer

  Learning, Chess Game, Next Day

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• I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Chess Game, Giving

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