Top 100 Quotes About Fischer
#1. Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.
A.E. Samaan
#3. Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
Mikhail Tal
#4. 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.
Anatoli Boukreev
#5. In their groundbreaking book, Tribal Leadership, management consultants Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright lay out the five stages of tribal development, which they formulated after conducting extensive research on small to midsize organizations.
Phil Jackson
#7. 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.
Anatoly Karpov
#8. 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.'
George Steiner
#9. That was the problem with Alison Fischer: you never knew which part of her to look at. He looked at her face
Nam Le
#10. Louise Roth Fischer, for caring about the women in Klong Prem Prison and for supporting all South Africans incarcerated abroad.
Hazel Friedman
#12. I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.
Liz Garbus
#13. When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.
Boris Spassky
#14. In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead
Isaac Kashdan
#15. 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.
Ben Kingsley
#16. Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury
Mig Greengard
#17. Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
Mikhail Tal
#18. Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
Alexander Kotov
#19. 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
Frank Brady
#20. Don't fuck with me. I don't like it and I know your mother.
Jory to a Handsy-Hayes Fischer
Mary Calmes
#21. 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
Mikhail Tal
#22. Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.
Hans Ree
#23. 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)
Jon Krakauer
#24. Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what
Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board
Mikhail Botvinnik
#25. There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!
Boris Spassky
#26. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
Herbie Hancock
#27. Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine
Larry Evans
#28. 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.
Liz Garbus
#29. By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
Garry Kasparov
#30. The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
Viktor Korchnoi
#31. 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
Efim Geller
#32. 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
John Nunn
#33. The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
Boris Spassky
#34. This year, everything is going to be different. No one in Fischer Hall is going to die this year. Not even accidentally."
"How are you going to manage that?" Coop asks, gnawing on a Chinese sparerib. "Bubble wrap all your residents?
Meg Cabot
#35. Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves on their computers. But that doesn't mean they are special.
Garry Kasparov
#36. Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived
Larry Evans
#37. 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!'
Mikhail Tal
#38. 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
Bruce Pandolfini
#39. Hungary shares more than it may like to admit with its former Warsaw Pact allies Romania and Bulgaria. Fischer explained that despite its economic progress, Hungary still cannot easily escape its past:
Robert D. Kaplan
#40. 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.
Warren Buffett
#41. Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever
Dave Regis
#42. In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody
Paul Keres
#43. You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer
Andrew Soltis
#45. Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.
Hans Ree
#46. I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.
Garry Kasparov
#47. My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.
Myron Scholes
#48. Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Boris Spassky
#49. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
Ben Kingsley
#50. Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified
Jeremy Silman
#51. It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
Gaines Adams
#52. CAPM pioneer Bill Sharpe remarked, "I have concluded that I may never see an empirical result that will convince me that it disconfirms any theory," which reiterated Fischer Black's (1993) feeling, "I find theory to be far more powerful than data.
Eric G. Falkenstein
#53. Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents
Yuri Balashov
#54. 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
Bruce Pandolfini
#55. 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.
Garry Kasparov
#56. Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.
Edmar Mednis
#57. Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
Daniel Tammet
#58. To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)
Paul Newman
#59. With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time
Burt Hochberg
#62. First I would like to wash Bunsen, and then I would like to kiss him because he is such a charming man.
(Remark by the wife of Emil Fischer, upon meeting Bunsen for the first time, perhaps noticing a lasting chemical odour from his work.)
Agnes Fischer
#63. It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer
Mikhail Tal
#64. 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.
Magnus Carlsen
#65. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
Bobby Fischer
#66. Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.
Jenna Fischer
#67. Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.
Tibor Fischer
#68. Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
Bobby Fischer
#70. Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
Urs Fischer
#71. I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.
Deb Fischer
#72. The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Bobby Fischer
#73. 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?
Bobby Fischer
#76. Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#77. 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.
Bobby Fischer
#78. In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.
Norman Fischer
#80. I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.
Jenna Fischer
#81. When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
Bobby Fischer
#82. Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
Joschka Fischer
#83. I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.
Tanya Fischer
#84. You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always something going on. It helps to know people there, too, because everything changes so fast, and they will be able to point out what's hot this month.
Tibor Fischer
#85. Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?
Tibor Fischer
#87. You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
Jenna Fischer
#88. A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
Tibor Fischer
#89. I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.
Bobby Fischer
#90. One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.
Fischer Black
#91. The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.
Heinz Fischer
#92. Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.
Heinz Fischer
#93. I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.
Jenna Fischer
#94. We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.
Joschka Fischer
#96. Madness is a completely undervalued quality and I don't understand why people should hide it to conform to some boring version of themselves.
Christoph Fischer
#97. Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
Urs Fischer
#98. 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.
Bobby Fischer
#99. Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.
Christoph Fischer
#100. You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
Bobby Fischer
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