Bobby Fischer Quotes - Page 5

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• Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

  Bobby Fischer

  Ego, Chess, Alter Ego

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• I add status to any tournament I attend.

  Bobby Fischer

  Add, Chess, Tournaments

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Alekhine, Ifs

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want, Chess

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• Chess is like war on a board

  Bobby Fischer

  War, Boards, 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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• 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 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 was never invited to the White House.

  Bobby Fischer

  White, House, Invited

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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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• There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Games, Half

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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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• They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Years, Etc

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