Spassky Vs Fischer Quotes

#1. Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

Mike Goodall

#2. Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.

Bobby Fischer

#3. I still hope to kill Fischer

Boris Spassky

#4. 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

#5. The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

William Graham Sumner

#6. Now he belongs to the ages.

Edwin M. Stanton

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

Boris Spassky

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

Boris Spassky

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

Bobby Fischer

#10. 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.

Bobby Fischer

#11. 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.

Bobby Fischer

#12. Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Boris Spassky

#13. Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

Rene Dubos

#14. It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.

Ambrose

#15. I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Tom Bissell