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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

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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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I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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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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The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Chess is like war on a board
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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I don't believe in psychology.
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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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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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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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