If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I like to make them squirm.
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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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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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe in psychology.
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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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