Bobby Fischer Quotes

Chess is mental torture.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

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

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

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

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

The score never interested me, only the game.

If I'm not asleep, it's probably all basketball.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Chess is one long regret.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

I love football, football is my life.

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.