Fischer Quotes Page 2

Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.

Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever.

But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy.

One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves on their computers. But that doesn’t mean they are special.

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer, or even myself, could manage throughout our entire lives. What is very important is that you will use this power productively and you will not be hijacked by the computer screen. Always keep your personality intact.

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

Since 2005, when the French and the Dutch voted "no" on a constitution for Europe, nobody has developed a real project for the EU. And certainly not France. If there were ideas, they came from Wolfgang Schäuble or Joschka Fischer, and these German ideas were downright quashed by France. I want to put an end to that.

[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story of a very peculiar man, another genius who's troubled and lived an interesting life. I had great fun making that.

Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess.

It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents;

he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister.

We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.

' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop.

Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.