“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.” — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
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. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
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 gentlemanly group.… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image