Bobby Fischer Quotes

Chess is mental torture.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.

Life is a kind of chess.

The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

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

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

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

On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

You hope to bring your 'A Game' to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.

The ball is the most important thing on the field.

Every Bundesliga match is a new challenge, our opponents don't make it easy for us.

Obviously, you want to score every game, but you just have to be patient.

During the season, you just grind, it's a cat-and-mouse game.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

Winning is the most important thing. You want to focus on the game and the team.