I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
BOBBY FISCHERI’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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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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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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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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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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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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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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