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I don't believe in hero worship.

Bobby Fischer

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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Chess is like war on a board
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Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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.
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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.
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Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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I don't listen to weakies.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
Bobby Fischer