Quotes from Bobby Fischer

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.

Someday computers will make us all obsolete. (1975)

I don't listen to weakies.

I wanted to become world champion, and in this respect school couldn't give me anything… It is better to be one of the strongest chess players in the world, than to be one of many thousands with a diploma.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

It's just a matter of throwing in a few sacrifices, then checkmate!

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to chess. Others give only 2 percent.

Tactics flow from a superior position.

Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it.

Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

I want to live the rest of my house in a house built exactly like a rook.

I want to be world champion. I have achieved it, now I don't know what to do.

It's just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.

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.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.