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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Bobby Fischer

They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
BOBBY FISCHER

Decided Dress Priding Themselves
I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Destroy Love People
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
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Doubt Moving Years
The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Future Games White
All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Want
Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Losing Thinking
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
BOBBY FISCHER

Control Country Mean Under 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
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
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
Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Body Every Reputation Success Winning
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Medicine Play Winning
The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess World
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
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

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