Top 147 Quotes & Sayings by Bobby Fischer - Page 3

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

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

Chess is like war on a board

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

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

Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.

Different people feel differently about resigning

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

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

I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

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

Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!

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.

Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.

I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!

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.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

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

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.

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

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.

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 to have to wait and play under my conditions.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess