146 Quotes by Bobby Fischer

The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost.

Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

When I was eleven, I just got good.

I am boring. I am boring!

Different people feel differently about resigning