They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHERAmericans 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
-
-
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
BOBBY FISCHER -
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
BOBBY FISCHER -
They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
BOBBY FISCHER -
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
BOBBY FISCHER -
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
BOBBY FISCHER -
In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
BOBBY FISCHER