Bobby Fischer quotes

Bobby Fischer was an American chess grandmaster, widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. His victory in the 1972 World Chess Championship ended Soviet dominance of the game. He became a cultural icon and greatly increased the popularity of chess worldwide. Here are 90 of his quotes:

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Bobby Fischer

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

Bobby Fischer

Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country.

Bobby Fischer

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

Bobby Fischer

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

Bobby Fischer

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.

Bobby Fischer

I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.

Bobby Fischer

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

Bobby Fischer

Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

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

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

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Bobby Fischer

I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.

Bobby Fischer

In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.

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

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

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

Bobby Fischer

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

Bobby Fischer

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

Bobby Fischer

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

Bobby Fischer