I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERA piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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I don’t believe in psychology.
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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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