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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Bobby Fischer

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 psychology. I believe in good moves
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Chess Game Moving
I like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Like Make Psychology
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Titles World
Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Success Winning
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
I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
BOBBY FISCHER

Facts Matter Today
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
As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Night Winning
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
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Facts Psychology
All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Want
I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Everybody Friend Needs Secret Something
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
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

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