I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it. Bobby Fischer More Quotes by Bobby Fischer More Quotes From Bobby Fischer Nothing is so healing as the human touch. Bobby Fischer humanshealing Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it Bobby Fischer chess-gamelosingthinking Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that. Bobby Fischer girlstarswriting 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 I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her. Bobby Fischer squareseyeschool I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised. Bobby Fischer mattertodayfacts That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one Bobby Fischer chess-gamenext-daylearning There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player Bobby Fischer chess-gameniceplayer Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all Bobby Fischer geniuschess I like the moment when I break a man's ego. Bobby Fischer chess-gamepsychologymen Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties. Bobby Fischer maturetwentiesplayer I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it. Bobby Fischer chess-gameplayerworld They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people. Bobby Fischer lyingpeopledirty I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum. Bobby Fischer politicalgovernmentasylums If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game. Bobby Fischer tragedygameswinning In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings. Bobby Fischer championplayerchess As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process. Bobby Fischer winningnightbelieve Patzer sees a check, gives a check. Bobby Fischer checksgiving When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since. Bobby Fischer manhattanplayerpeople Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact. Bobby Fischer psychologychessfacts Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others. Bobby Fischer sheeprelationshippeople
