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 FISCHERYour body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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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.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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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 don’t listen to weakies.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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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!
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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.
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I like to make them squirm.
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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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I don’t believe in psychology.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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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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