I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
BOBBY FISCHERThey asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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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.
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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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All my games are real
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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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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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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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