Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHERWell, 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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The 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.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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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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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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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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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 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.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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