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.
BOBBY FISCHERAmerica is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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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 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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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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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 would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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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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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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