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I don't listen to weakies.

Bobby Fischer

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Chicago
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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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.
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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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