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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.

Bobby Fischer

I don’t listen to weakies.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Listen People Weakens
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mistake Moving
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Playing Chess Want
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Baseball Country Football
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

Chess Thinking World
They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
BOBBY FISCHER

People Some Spoke
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
I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHER

Bigs Care Games
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Firsts Match Stolen
A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Type Come Gamer People
I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
BOBBY FISCHER

Airplanes Country Couple Showed
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Lying Moving Religious
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country People Robbing Years
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHER

Asylums Government Political
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Moving Strong

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.

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