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?
BOBBY FISCHERWhen I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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.
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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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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 have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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I 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.
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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 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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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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