Bobby Fischer Quotes

Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

You have to be that 1 percent or 2 percent better physically so you have more power and energy left than your opponent when you go to a third set.

To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

I had the luck of being in Madrid. They sign some of the best players in the world, and that really leaves fewer opportunities for young players.

It's not easy to replace the best centre-back in the world.

I would say that when you go to the very, very top, it's an ability to come up with new ideas, with something new, to make the difference. Every world champion, every player who was traversing this universe, managed to bring something new to the game. This ability to always find some unconventional ways. That makes the final difference.

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

In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

We in America can compete successfully with anyone in the world, and we're going to.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

America has an economy reversing relative to other nations in the world. And I want to turn that around. And one way I know to turn it around is to get everyone excited about what it is to innovate again.

I want to find the best opportunity to become the best in the world.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.