Bobby Fischer Quotes And Sayings

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“I’m not afraid of him. He’s afraid of me. I’m not afraid of him. (on Spassky)”
– Bobby Fischer

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

“If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me.”
– Bobby Fischer

“If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Improve memory with scientifically designed brain exercises.”
– Bobby Fischer

“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

“In response to a question by the Prince of Monaco as to how he learned to play chess so well, Fischer responded, I have read probably a thousand books on chess and have taken all the best from them.” – Monaco, 1967″
– Bobby Fischer

“It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.”
– Bobby Fischer

“It’s just you and your opponent at the board and you’re trying to prove something.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Just before his match with Petrosian, Fischer said, I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it. I have waited 10 years for this moment, but I was hindered by Russian maneuvers.” Buenos Aires, 1971″
– Bobby Fischer

“Just before the U.S. championship, Fischer said, Everyone is skeptical about my success, but even so, I will win!” – New York, 1958″
– Bobby Fischer

“Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all.”
– Bobby Fischer

“My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration.”
– Bobby Fischer

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

“Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Nothing is so healing as the human touch.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.”
– Bobby Fischer

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

“Spassky sits at the board with the same dead expression whether he’s mating or being mated.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Staunton appears to have been afraid to meet Morphy and I think his fears were well-founded. Morphy would have beaten him, but it wouldn’t have been the one-sided encounter that many writers now think it would. It would have been a great struggle.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Staunton was the most profound opening analyst of all time. He was more theorist than player, but nonetheless he was the strongest player of his day. Playing over his games, I discover that they are completely modern; where Morphy and Steinitz rejected the fianchetto, Staunton embraced it. In addition, he understood all of the positional concepts which modern players hold so dear, and thus – with Steinitz – must be considered the first modern player.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Tactics flow from a superior position.”
– Bobby Fischer

“That’s what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.”
– Bobby Fischer

“The system set up by F.I.D.E. … ensures that there will always be a Russian world champion … The Russians arranged it that way. – 1962″
– Bobby Fischer

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

“The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.”
– Bobby Fischer

“There are tough players and nice guys, and I’m a tough player.”
– Bobby Fischer

“There isn’t a woman player in the world I can’t give knights-odds to and still beat.”
– Bobby Fischer

“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.”
– Bobby Fischer

“Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around. I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.”
– Bobby Fischer

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