FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHERI play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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.
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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.
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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 believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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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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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.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I like to make them squirm.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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