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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!

Bobby Fischer

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
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Myself Stopped Struggle Whole World
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
I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
BOBBY FISCHER

One Remember School Thing
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Moving Psychology
You are never too old to play chess!
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess never Old Play
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
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Open People Principles
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mind Sometimes Stills
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
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Giving Success
There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Involved Luck

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