Bobby Fischer Quotes

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

To get squares you have to give up squares.

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

I don't listen to weakies.

All my games are real

Chess is like war on a board

If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.

There's no one alive I can't beat.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

Different people feel differently about resigning

I am boring. I am boring!

Americans 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.

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Our 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.

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

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?

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

I don't believe in psychology.

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

When I was eleven, I just got good.

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

The 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.

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

I have never opened with the QP - on principle.

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.