I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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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.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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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?
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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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.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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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
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