146 Quotes by Bobby Fischer

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

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

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

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

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

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves