I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
-
-
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
BOBBY FISCHER -
These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
BOBBY FISCHER -
Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHER -
The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER -
All my games are real
BOBBY FISCHER -
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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 -
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?
BOBBY FISCHER -
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
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.
BOBBY FISCHER -
I don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHER