Searching for Bobby Fischer

Bruce Pandolfini:
Bobby Fischer held the world in contempt.

Josh Waitzkin:
Well, I'm not him.

Bruce Pandolfini:
You're telling me.

Bruce:
You have no idea what I want. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art. I spent my life trying to play like him. Most of these guys have. But we're like forgers. We're competent fakes. His successor wasn't here tonight. He wasn't here. He is asleep in his room in your house. Your son creates like Fischer. He sees like him, inside.

Fred:
You can tell this by watching him play some drunks in the park?

Bruce:
Yes. You want to know what I want. I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

Fred:
He's better at this than I've ever been at anything in my life. He's better at this than you'll ever be, at anything. My son has a gift. He has a gift, and when you acknowledge that, then maybe we will have something to talk about.

Josh:
Maybe it's better not to be the best. Then you can lose and it's OK.

Bonnie:
He's not afraid of losing. He's afraid of losing your love. How many ball players grow up afraid of losing their fathers' love every time they come up to the plate?

Fred:
All of them!

Bonnie:
He knows you disapprove of him. He knows you think he's weak. But he's not weak. He's decent. And if you or Bruce or anyone else tries to beat that out of him, I swear to God I'll take him away.

Bruce:
Do you know what it means to have "contempt" for your opponent?

Josh:
No.

Bruce:
It means to hate them. You have to hate them Josh, they hate you.

Josh:
But I don't hate them.

Bruce:
Well you'd better start.

Fred:
You know you could give up the game, and that would be alright with me. In fact, I want you to give it up.

Josh:
But I can't.

Fred:
Why not?

Josh:
Because I have to play. *I* have to.

Josh Waitzkin:
You've lost, you just don't know it yet.

Josh:
Can we get some brochures now?

Fred:
Sure, pee and get your coat.

Josh:
Can we go to the dealerships now?

Fred:
But the game's not over, yet.

Josh:
Yes, it is.

Bruce Pandolfini:
Look deep, Josh. It's there. It's twelve moves away, but it's there. You've got him.

Bruce Pandolfini:
To put your son in a position to care about winning and not to prepare him is wrong!