Alexander Alekhine Quotes

I am a student of the game.

I'm a student of the game.

I'm happy that people think of me as the greatest tap-dancer that ever lived. But it's just a rumor. Because the greatest dancer that ever lived knows everything, and I don't. I'm still learning. I still have a lot of work to do.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

There's not much simplifying. You gotta know what you gotta know. That's how the quarterback position is, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.

I've played the game for a long time.

With every look I can get and every defense I play against I get more experience.

You need to know a lot to become master of your profession.

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

Clarity breeds mastery.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

Practice makes the master.

If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

You have to be a master to teach.