Inspirational Quotations 1
Submitted by on Fri, 07/25/2008 at 1:22pm.
"Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact." - Bobby Fischer
"I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine." - Bobby Fischer
"Your body has to be in top condition. Your chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind." - Bobby Fischer
"Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine." - Jonathan Spielmann
"A good player is always lucky." - Capablanca
"Between GMs we have this saying: there are only two styles: the losing or the winning one." – Vladimir Kramnik
"When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic." – John van der Wiel
"We're supposed to learn from our defeats, and, ideally, we should try. But being repeatedly bludgeoned into submission is likely to leave even the tough-minded insensate. We all need some winning once in awhile." – Bruce Pandolfini
"It takes a strong player to realize how truly weak he is." – Saviely Tartakower
"The winner of a game is the one who has made the next to last blunder." – Saviely Tartakower
"Chess is an egotistical game, and all its protagonists hold conceits of some kind or other, else there would be no point in playing." – Charles W. Warburton
"The more schizophrenic you are, the more you hold an inner dialogue with yourself, the better at chess you will become." – Jeremy Silman
"In chess, the threat is stronger than the execution." – Aaron Nimzowitsch
"When the win is in sight-sit on your hands!"- Siegbert Tarrasch
"Never lose concentration when you are playing a game. One quick, thoughtless move can turn a brilliantly played game into a disaster." – Max Euwe
"Bad moves come in waves." – Bill Wall
"Play for a positional advantage and the tactics will look after themselves." – Alex Bellinger
"General principles can be a good guide, but there is no substitute for sound analysis based on concrete variations." – Source Unknown
(Most of these from Chessville)