Bobby Fischer Quotes - Page 5

All my games are real

I add status to any tournament I attend.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

When I was eleven, I just got good.

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.

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

I don't believe in psychology.

If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

Chess is like war on a board

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.

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?

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.

Different people feel differently about resigning

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

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.

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.

I was never invited to the White House.

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

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.