Top 100 Bobby Fischer Quotes
#1. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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#3. I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I
was half out of my head-stoned almost.
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#4. You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
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#5. Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.
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#6. As Olafsson showed me, White can win ... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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#7. 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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#8. I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
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#9. You can only get good at Chess if you love the game
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#14. It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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#15. I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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#17. The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Different people feel differently about resigning
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#20. I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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#22. I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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#24. Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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#25. First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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#26. I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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#27. FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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#28. I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.
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#30. Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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#31. There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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#33. I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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#34. I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.
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#35. Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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#36. I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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#38. I have never opened with the QP - on principle.
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#39. Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.
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#40. Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
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#41. The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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#43. I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
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#46. That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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#47. A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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#49. Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something
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#50. I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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#51. Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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#52. I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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#53. There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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#54. I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
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#55. If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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#56. 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.
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#57. It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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#58. 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.
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#59. I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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#60. You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances
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#61. I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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#62. When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.
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#63. They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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#66. I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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#67. Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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#68. I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.
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#69. I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it
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#70. If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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#71. 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.
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#72. In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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#73. I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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#74. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#78. Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
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#79. Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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#81. There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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#82. 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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#83. My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.
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#84. I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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#87. I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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#88. Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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#89. They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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#94. My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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#95. They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
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#96. America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.
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#97. I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
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#98. Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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#99. Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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#100. I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!
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