I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERI consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERA strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHERI hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHERTeach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
BOBBY FISCHERGenius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
BOBBY FISCHERI’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHERThey asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHERYou are never too old to play chess!
BOBBY FISCHERI’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
BOBBY FISCHERNothing eases suffering like human touch.
BOBBY FISCHERAll I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERThe 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.
BOBBY FISCHERI give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
BOBBY FISCHERPeople have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHERThese 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!
BOBBY FISCHER