Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
BOBBY FISCHERNothing is so healing as the human touch.
BOBBY FISCHERSometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
BOBBY FISCHERI hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHERToo 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.
BOBBY FISCHERYeah, 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?
BOBBY FISCHERYour body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHERThat’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
BOBBY FISCHERPsychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
BOBBY FISCHERThe 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 FISCHERThey 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.
BOBBY FISCHERSo if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
BOBBY FISCHERIf you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
BOBBY FISCHERThey’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
BOBBY FISCHERComputers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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 FISCHERI 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.
BOBBY FISCHER