Top 147 Quotes & Sayings by Bobby Fischer

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Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, at age 14 in 1958, he won the U.S. Championship, the first of eight times. In 1964, he won it with a perfect score. Qualifying for the 1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores. After another qualifying match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, the match attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since.

American - Celebrity | March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008

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I am boring. I am boring!

Bobby Fischer

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Bobby Fischer

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Bobby Fischer

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

Bobby Fischer

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Bobby Fischer

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

Bobby Fischer

Chess is life.

Bobby Fischer

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Bobby Fischer

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

Bobby Fischer

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

Bobby Fischer

I don't listen to weakies.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Bobby Fischer

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

Bobby Fischer

I don't believe in hero worship.

Bobby Fischer

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

Bobby Fischer

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

Bobby Fischer

I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.

Bobby Fischer

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

Bobby Fischer

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Bobby Fischer

I was never invited to the White House.

Bobby Fischer

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.

Bobby Fischer

I don't want to look like a bum.

Bobby Fischer

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

Bobby Fischer

I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.

Bobby Fischer

I don't believe in psychology.

Bobby Fischer

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

Bobby Fischer

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.

Bobby Fischer

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

Bobby Fischer

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Bobby Fischer

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

Bobby Fischer

You are never too old to play chess!

Bobby Fischer

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

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

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...

Bobby Fischer

I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.

Bobby Fischer

They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.

Bobby Fischer

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

Bobby Fischer

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

Bobby Fischer

The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.

Bobby Fischer

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

Bobby Fischer

First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.

Bobby Fischer

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

Bobby Fischer

I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

Bobby Fischer

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

Bobby Fischer

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.

Bobby Fischer

I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

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 love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

Bobby Fischer

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

Bobby Fischer

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

Bobby Fischer

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

Bobby Fischer

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

Bobby Fischer

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

Bobby Fischer

I like to make them squirm.

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

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

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!

Bobby Fischer

My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.

Bobby Fischer

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Bobby Fischer

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

Bobby Fischer