Bobby Fischer Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collection of Bobby Fischer quotes and sayings. Robert James “Bobby” Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and also the 11th World Chess Champion.

“My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply!”
– Alexei Suetin

“What I admired most about him was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.”
– Magnus Carlsen

“Pressmen have been doing Fischer wrong all his life. He loves chess immensely and he is a wonderful friend.”
– Miguel Quinteros

“You know you’re going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose. – (on playing against Fischer)”
– Andy Soltis

“All I want to do, ever, is just play chess.”
– Bobby Fischer

“I want to live the rest of my house in a house built exactly like a rook.” – Ginzburg interview, Harper’s Magazine 1962″
– Bobby Fischer

“…I’m finished with the old chess because it’s all just a lot of book and memorization you know.” – radio interview, 2002″
– Bobby Fischer

“A special chess table was made for me in Zurich for $100, and that is, beside my TV set, the thing I like most. I am preparing a book which should contain my 50 best games: I’ll publish it after my match for the world title in 1963. I devote 5 hours a day to the study of chess, more before a tournament.” Interview with Yugoslav journalist, Bled, 1962″
– Bobby Fischer

“All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Any player, no matter how strong he is, can overlook quite simple moves in the course of a game. Published analysis, however, should be free from such errors. I pride myself on the fact that I have never made a mistake in analysis.” – Chess Life, July-August, 1963″
– Bobby Fischer

“Around the world I’m more famous than Joe Namath. In the U.S. I’m nobody.” – 1969″
– Bobby Fischer

“Chess demands total concentration and a love for the game.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Chess is merely a means of making money and I think we can make much more money working together than we can separately.” – Fischer letter to Walter Browne, 1971″
– Bobby Fischer

“Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.” – Yugoslavia, 1958″
– Bobby Fischer

“Give me two years and I will win it [world chess championship].” –said to Newsweek reporter, 1961″
– Bobby Fischer

“I am going to win the World Championship. [World champion] Tal hasn’t been playing so good and he may not even be World Champion by the time the next match is held.” – from Robert Cantrell interview, 1961. Fischer accurately predicted that Tal would not be world champion after the next world championship match.”
– Bobby Fischer

“I don’t believe in psychology – I believe in good moves.” – Washington Post interview, 1972″
– Bobby Fischer

“I don’t want anybody to make money out of me!” – New York, 1972″
– Bobby Fischer

“I give 98 percent of my mental energy to chess. Others give only 2 percent.”
– Bobby Fischer

“I have decided to play [in the Interzonal], although I disagree with the system of world championship competition. I thought: what can I lose by playing? I thought it would be important to qualify for the candidates, but I also thought, naturally, of the possibility of winning the tournament.” – Palma de Mallorca, 1970″
– Bobby Fischer

“I lend stature to any tournament I attend.” – as told to Frank Brady, 1963″
– Bobby Fischer

“I like them [Soviet chess players] a lot. The way they play just suits me. It’s sharp, attacking, full of fighting spirit.” – interview with a Russian reporter, New York 1958″
– Bobby Fischer

“I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying. It really is dead.” – radio interview, 1999″
– Bobby Fischer

“I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius who happens to play chess.”
– Bobby Fischer

“I oppose expulsion from FIDE of any country on political basis on grounds that chess should be above politics.” – Fischer’s cable to FIDE delegates, Pasadena, 1975″
– Bobby Fischer

“I really love the dark of the night. It helps me concentrate.” – Darrach interview, Life magazine 1972″
– Bobby Fischer

“I think my subconscious mind is working on it [chess] all the time. Even when I’m not playing or studying, I sit down at the board and get a lot of new ideas. Things are coming to me all the time.” -1968″
– Bobby Fischer

“I want to be world champion. I have achieved it, now I don’t know what to do.” – 1973″
– Bobby Fischer

“I want to play a lot of chess and I like to play matches. I want to play a lot of matches, you know; the money is there. It’s a question of money, not a question of waiting three years.” – Gligoric interview after winning the world championship, Reykjavik 1972″
– Bobby Fischer

“I wanted to become world champion, and in this respect school couldn’t give me anything… It is better to be one of the strongest chess players in the world, than to be one of many thousands with a diploma.”
– Bobby Fischer

“I was always serious about chess.”
– Bobby Fischer

“I win my games not with the help of some kind of spells, but much more simply; I arrive, I sit down at the board and…I win!” – Palma de Mallorca, 1970″
– Bobby Fischer

“I’ll never play in one of those rigged tournaments again. They [the Russians] clobber us easy in team play. But man to man, I’d take Petrosian on any time.” – Life magazine, 1964″
– Bobby Fischer

“I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.” –Bill Lombardy interview, 1972″
– Bobby Fischer

“If I wanted personal gain, I wouldn’t be thinking of chess. I would be in the stock market.” – BBC interview 1972″
– Bobby Fischer

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