I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
BOBBY FISCHERAll I want to do, ever, is play chess.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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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 am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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