Bobby Fischer Quotes

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

You know, I'm, like, a smart person.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.

I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.