Spassky Fischer Quotes & Sayings

Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me. — Bobby Fischer

I still hope to kill Fischer — Boris Spassky

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. — Boris Spassky

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it. — Bobby Fischer

I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I can't really make these perfect minimal musical executions - all the things that would be nice with all these refined poems. — Doseone

It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way. — Benoit Mandelbrot

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose! — Boris Spassky

I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him. — Bobby Fischer

Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer — Mike Goodall

Books are the single most efficient technology there is in terms of nimbleness and bang for the buck. You can present a whole universe in a book. It's produced simply by sitting in front of a typewriter or a computer and tapping on keys. There's no real limit to what you can conjure up in the reader's imagination by doing that. The book is irreplaceable. — Neal Stephenson

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners. — Bobby Fischer

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. — Boris Spassky

He really is alive." "No thanks to you dicks. — Kendare Blake

I am proud that I am a good mother to my children, a good daughter to my mother, a good sister to my sis (Ashley Judd) and a good wife to my new husband. — Wynonna Judd

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. — Boris Spassky

I really want to do a sci-fi movie. — Rohan Chand