I am fully and entirely ...

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent\'s personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.
I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.
 Wilhelm Steinitz

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it
 Wilhelm Steinitz
I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.
 Wilhelm Steinitz
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.
 Wilhelm Steinitz
The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.
 Wilhelm Steinitz
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
 Wilhelm Steinitz