“You don't want to be the first to act, you want to be the last man standing”
“I have never opened the game with my queen's pawn.”
“In chess, one cannot control everything.”
“The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.”
“Success is not the absence of failure, but the willingness to persevere in spite of it.”
“You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.”
“If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.”
“If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.”
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude ”
“I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.”
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, ...”
“Be where your enemy is not.”
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible”
“Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success”