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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

Bobby Fischer

Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Phony Thinking
I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
BOBBY FISCHER

One Remember School Thing
Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Losing Opponents
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Freedom Late Order Speech Too
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mind Training
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Playing Chess Want
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Ends World
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Yugoslavia
I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
BOBBY FISCHER

Championship Chess Game Seriously
If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Tragedy Winning
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHER

Done Image Nobody
The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
BOBBY FISCHER

Man Pawn Scope Strong Weaknesses
There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Half Player
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!
BOBBY FISCHER

Contempt Dog Lowest Runner

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

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