I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERI have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERI add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHEROur mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
BOBBY FISCHERMy opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHERThe U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
BOBBY FISCHERSteinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
BOBBY FISCHERIf you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHERTo get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHERI like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
BOBBY FISCHERPeople have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHERThe Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
BOBBY FISCHERSo if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
BOBBY FISCHERI am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
BOBBY FISCHERToo many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
BOBBY FISCHERI consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER