Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
BOBBY FISCHERThat’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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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.
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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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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.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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.
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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.
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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
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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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.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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