Bobby Fischer famous quotes

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Play #Want #Chess

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
-- Bobby Fischer

#Believe #Moving #Psychology

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game
-- Bobby Fischer

#Games #Chess

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Player #Champion #Chess

I add status to any tournament I attend.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Add #Chess

Chess demands total concentration
-- Bobby Fischer

#Demand #Chess #Concentration

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Thinking #Games #Chess

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Winning #Play #Careers

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Crush #War #Mind

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
-- Bobby Fischer

#Moving #Opponents #Chess

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Men #Psychology #Ego

Blitz chess kills your ideas.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Ideas #Chess #Blitz

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
-- Bobby Fischer

#Strong #Memories #Player

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
-- Bobby Fischer

#Genius #Chess

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it
-- Bobby Fischer

#Player #Chess #World

Chess is like war on a board
-- Bobby Fischer

#War #Boards #Chess

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
-- Bobby Fischer

#Giving #Energy #Chess

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

#Moving #Fighting #Chess

When I was eleven, I just got good.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Chess #Eleven

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Chess #Facts #Should

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

#Moving #Chess #Taught

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.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Games #Chess #Scientist

My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. 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.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Struggle #Life And Death #World

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

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something
-- Bobby Fischer

#Trying #Boards #Opponents

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
-- Bobby Fischer

#Mind #Doe #Body

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Mean #Yugoslavia #America

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
-- Bobby Fischer

#Giving #One Day #Lessons

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Women #Moving #Knights

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
-- Bobby Fischer

#School #Remember

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
-- Bobby Fischer

#Nice #Player #Guy

I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Play #Different #Genius

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Giving #Opponents #Chess

Different people feel differently about resigning
-- Bobby Fischer

#People #Different #Chess

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
-- Bobby Fischer

#Thinking #Chess #Losing

All my games are real
-- Bobby Fischer

#Real #Games #Chess

Tactics flow from a superior position
-- Bobby Fischer

#Tactics #Chess #Flow

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves
-- Bobby Fischer

#Moving #Chess #Matter

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.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Country #Europe #White

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Taken #Games #Class

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Suffering #Ease #Humans

They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Lying #Dirty #People