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 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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Teach 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?
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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