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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.

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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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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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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
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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 am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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I am boring. I am boring!
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