Fischer Quotes

Fischer Quote of the day

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him

Robert Fischer is a law unto himself

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

I still hope to kill Fischer

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified

Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.