Bobby Fischer Mind Quotations

I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He wanted to change the rules [of chess] 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 memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.