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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

Bobby Fischer

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
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Robert James Fischer
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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I don't believe in psychology.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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.
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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 play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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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.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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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.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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