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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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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
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Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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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 don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. 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.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!
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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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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