Роберт Фишер цитаты

„В школе нечему учиться. Учителя глупы. Нельзя, чтобы учителями работали женщины. В моей школе только учитель физкультуры был неглуп — он неплохо играл в шахматы.“

„Женщины — это не серьезно. Юноши только теряют на них время. Шахматы — вот что приносит удовлетворение и может также приносить деньги.“

„Когда я проигрываю партию, я чувствую себя королем, который подает нищему.“

„Я не верю в психологию, я верю в сильные ходы.“

„Нет такой женщины, у которой я не выиграл бы, даже дав коня вперёд.“

„Я знаю людей, обладающих огромной силой воли, но не умеющих играть в шахматы.“

„Дети без родителей вырастают волчатами. Я всего лишь человек, но человек необычной судьбы.“

„Я не такой мягкий и великодушный человек, каким был бы, если бы мир не изменил меня.“

„Люди играют со мной вот уже 15 лет ниже своих возможностей.“

„Я добьюсь того, чтобы к шахматам относились с не меньшим уважением, чем к боксу. Сколько бы ни запросил Мохаммед Али за своё очередное выступление, я потребую больше.“

„Лиза Лэйн, чемпионка США по шахматам, как-то назвала Фишера сильнейшим из живущих шахматистов. Ответ: «Это верно, однако Лиза Лэйн, собственно говоря, не в состоянии об этом судить.»“

„О женщинах: Шахматы лучше.“

„В том-то и состоят шахматы. Сегодня ты даёшь сопернику урок, а завтра он тебе.“

„Посмотрите на историю Соединенных Штатов. Что такое история страны вообще? Стать кем-то из никого, верно? Завоевывать, убивать. Они захватили страну, разграбили земли американских индейцев, поубивали их почти всех… Такова история Соединенных Штатов. Презренная страна.“

„Шахматы — это жизнь.“

„Как побеждает Таль? Он развивает все свои фигуры к центру, а затем жертвует их где-нибудь.“

„Компьютер — единственный соперник, не находящий оправданий, когда он мне проигрывает.“

„Доставляй радость другим! И ты увидишь, что радость радует.“

„Когда я выигрываю, я гений. Когда не выигрываю, я не гений.“

„Всё, что я хочу когда-либо делать, — это играть в шахматы.“

„У меня нет близких друзей. У меня нет секретов. Друзья мне не нужны. Я говорю всё и всем.“

„Я играю честно и играю на выигрыш. Если я проигрываю, то принимаю лекарства.“

„Если кто-то был чемпионом мира много лет, это еще не значит, что он великий шахматист, так же как мы не назовем властелина великим только потому, что он долго правил.“

„Кто сколько предлагает денег? Для меня самое важное — деньги… Повторяю, для меня деньги — самая важная вещь…“

„Я чувствую себя превосходно, видя своего противника извивающимся в предсмертных мучениях.“

„К сожалению, и раньше были крупные мастера, совмещавшие свой шахматный талант с малыми человеческими достоинствами. Фишер — не исключение.“

„Фишер был, если можно так выразиться, верующим шахматистом. Он всегда искал правду на доске и никогда не играл на дешевый эффект.“

„(В ответ на довод секретаря посольства США в Тунисе, пытавшейся убедить Фишера не выходить из межзонального турнира Первенства мира: «Вы представляете Соединенные Штаты Америки!») Я представляю Роберта Джеймса Фишера.“

„Вы представляете Соединенные Штаты Америки!
— Я представляю Роберта Джеймса Фишера.“

„У Фишера нет другого выхода, как любить шахматы. Ведь он не умеет делать ничего другого.“

„Религия помогает мне лучше играть в шахматы — и это все, что меня в ней интересует.“

„Я считаю Роберта Фишера не типичным, а скорее атипичным американцем. Фишер куда более популярен в СССР, нежели у себя на родине…“

„Ни в одной другой области я бы не добился того, чего добился в шахматах. Я не окончил школу и не уверен, что это было нужно.“

„Девушки иногда пишут мне. Одна девушка из Югославии прислала мне целую кипу писем. Она говорит, что, когда я был там, звезды взошли в небе над Югославией. Или что-то в этом роде.“

„М. Таль, чемпион мира по шахматам: - Бобби, как тебе нравится творчество Ларисы Вольперт?“

„Фишер — наш профсоюз.“

„Фишер болезненно честен. Если он считает, что замешан принцип, для него деньги не играют никакой роли. Как и мнения других.“

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„Мне не нравится, когда меня называют шахматным гением, потому что я считаю себя всесторонним гением, который просто решил играть в шахматы, а это совсем другое. Кусок мусора, такой как Каспаров, можно назвать шахматным гением, но он как ученый-идиотик. Вне шахмат он ничего не знает.“

„Ничто так не лечит, как человеческое тепло.“

“I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.”

“Nothing eases suffering like human touch.”

“First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.”

“I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorization and prearrangement like it is today.”

“America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia… The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense are dirty Jews.”

“You don't learn anything in school. It's just a waste of time. You lug around books and all and do homework. They give too much homework. You shouldn't be doing homework. Nobody's interested in it. The teachers are stupid. They shouldn't have any women in there. They don't know how to teach. And they shouldn't make anyone go to school. You don't want to go, you don't go, that's all. It's ridiculous. I don't remember one thing I learned in school. I don't listen to weakies. My two and a half years in Erasmus High I wasted. I didn't like the whole thing. You have to mix with all those stupid kids. The teachers are even stupider than the kids. They talk down to the kids. Half of them are crazy. If they'd have let me, I would have quit before I was sixteen.”

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

“They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.”

“Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.”

“My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.”

“Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.”

“They can't concentrate, they don't have stamina, and they aren't creative. They are all fish.”

“I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.”

“In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings. You cannot compare the playing strength, you can only talk about natural ability. Memorization is enormously powerful. Some kid of fourteen today, or even younger, could get an opening advantage against Capablanca, and especially against the players of the previous century, like Morphy and Steinitz. Maybe they would still be able to outplay the young kid of today. Or maybe not, because nowadays when you get the opening advantage not only do you get the opening advantage, you know how to play, they have so many examples of what to do from this position. It is really deadly, and that is why I don’t like chess any more.”

“Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.”

“They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.”

“I'll play a lot, stake matches. Not like the Russians. They win the championship and then hide for three years. Every few months, anyway twice a year, I'd like to get up a purse and meet a challenger. It's good for the game, keeps up interest in chess, and it's good for the bank account. I want to get some money together. Like take professional football. All these athletes making hundreds of thousands of dollars. Contracts, endorsements. If there's room for all of them, there ought to be room for one of me. I mean, after all, I'm a great goodwill ambassador for the United States!”

“They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.”

“Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!”

“[Capablanca] wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.”

“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.”

“I follow the old chess, I follow all the pre-arranged matches, like the last Kramnik-Kasparov match. At the highest level it is all pre-arranged, move by move. You have very interesting, beautiful pre-arranged games being created by very intelligent players, working with computers, working in teams. I have no objections to people creating such games, but they must say these are pre-arranged games, but they must not claim that they are finding the moves over the board.”

“Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.”

“Morphy and Capablanca had enormous talent, they are two of my favorites. Steinitz was very great too. Alekhine was great, but I am not a big fan of his. Maybe it’s just my taste. I’ve studied his games a lot, but I much prefer Capablanca and Morphy. Alekhine had a rather heavy style, Capablanca was much more brilliant and talented, he had a real light touch. Everyone I’ve spoken to who saw Capablanca play still speak of him with awe. If you showed him any position he would instantly tell you the right move. 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. Capablanca really was fantastic. But even he had his weaknesses, especially when you play over his games with his notes he would make idiotic statements like 'I played the rest of the game perfectly.”

“You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.”

“Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me, I really believe this. When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. I turned all that around single-handedly”

“Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off… That's the history of the United States. A despicable country.”

“When I was eleven, I just got good.”

“(The Worldwide Church of God) cleaned my pockets out frankly. I have some money left, but not that much. I've got some assets. It's amazing they didn't get everything. Now my only income is a few royalty checks from my books. I was really very foolish, but I thought I was doing what I had to do. When I sent those checks off, I really didn't have the slightest qualms, no regrets, not the slightest. I don't really regret it that much, to tell you the truth, even now.”