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

Fischer: "I don't remember one thing I learned in school."

Fischer: "Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck."

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

Fischer: "My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration."

Fischer: "America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia."

Fischer: "Chess demands total concentration."

Fischer: "When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country."

Fischer: "All I want to do, ever, is play chess."

Fischer: "All that matters on the chessboard is good moves."

Fischer: "I am boring. I am boring!"

Fischer: "I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist."

Fischer: "I don't believe in psychology."

Fischer: "The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them."

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

Fischer: "The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States."

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

Fischer: "I don't listen to weakies."

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

Fischer: "Chess is life."

Fischer: "I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum."