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I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

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 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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than 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 play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.
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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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When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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 don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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 prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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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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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 was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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I don't listen to weakies.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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