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.
BOBBY FISCHERAll my games are real
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I like to make them squirm.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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Sometimes 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.
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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 care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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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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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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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.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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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