Chess Quotes by Bobby Fischer

I like to make them squirm.

— Bobby Fischer

Chess is life.

— Bobby Fischer

All my games are real

— Bobby Fischer

When I was eleven, I just got good.

— Bobby Fischer

I add status to any tournament I attend.

— Bobby Fischer

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

— Bobby Fischer

Chess demands total concentration

— Bobby Fischer

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

— Bobby Fischer

The Russians have fixed world chess.

— Bobby Fischer

You are never too old to play chess!

— Bobby Fischer

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

— Bobby Fischer

“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.”

— Bobby Fischer

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

— Bobby Fischer

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

— Bobby Fischer

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

— Bobby Fischer

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

— Bobby Fischer

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

— Bobby Fischer

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

— Bobby Fischer

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

— Bobby Fischer

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half…

— Bobby Fischer

As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally,…

— 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…

— Bobby Fischer

Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're…

— Bobby Fischer

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

— Bobby Fischer

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be…

— Bobby Fischer

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to…

— Bobby Fischer

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is…

— Bobby Fischer

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and…

— Bobby Fischer

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I…

— Bobby Fischer

I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to…

— Bobby Fischer

Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity,…

— Bobby Fischer

I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I…

— Bobby Fischer

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most…

— 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…

— Bobby Fischer

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who…

— Bobby Fischer

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

— Bobby Fischer

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

— Bobby Fischer

There's no one alive I can't beat.

— Bobby Fischer

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

— Bobby Fischer

Tactics flow from a superior position

— Bobby Fischer