If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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All my games are real
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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Chess demands total concentration
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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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 white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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