I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHERI am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHERI was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
BOBBY FISCHERThe white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
BOBBY FISCHERThey asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHERThe system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
BOBBY FISCHERYour body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHERAmericans 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 FISCHERYou are never too old to play chess!
BOBBY FISCHERA lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
BOBBY FISCHERThey were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
BOBBY FISCHERI have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERDon’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
BOBBY FISCHERThere 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.
BOBBY FISCHERKarpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
BOBBY FISCHER