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 FISCHERMaybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
-
-
Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHER -
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I don’t listen to weakies.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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 -
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
BOBBY FISCHER -
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
BOBBY FISCHER -
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
BOBBY FISCHER -
They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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 -
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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 -
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 -
All my games are real
BOBBY FISCHER -
As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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 -
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHER -
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 -
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 -
A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
BOBBY FISCHER -
That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
BOBBY FISCHER -
They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHER -
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER