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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.

Bobby Fischer

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
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Dog Games Immoral Prearranged Unethical
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 love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fighting Hate Winning
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
A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Know Nothing Piece
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Medicine Play Winning
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER

Boards Chess War
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
BOBBY FISCHER

Cells Coward Mind Prison
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Crush Game War
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
I like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Like Make Psychology
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
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Morphy Probably
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success

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