Write all your favourite chess quotes

"Every chess master was once a beginner" Irving Chernev

"Arise ! Awake! Stop Not Till U Become a Grandmaster"

-- BY @willbeagrandmaster

“There are two types of sacrifices, correct ones and mines”
-Mikhail Tal

"You could win by accident - for most of you, that's your only hope." - GM Ben Finegold

‘Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe’.

"Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research."
-- Wilhelm Steinitz

Emmanuel Lasker has all the best chess quotes :

"When you see a good move, look for a better one."

"The hardest game to win is a won game"

"I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake."

"Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight."

"The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others."

"I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!"

[asked if knight or bishop is better] "Well, it depends if you're religious or not" - Garry Kasparov

#9

thought it was Tarrasch