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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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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 prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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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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Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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All my games are real
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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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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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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?
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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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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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