Quotes by Wilhelm Steinitz

• Chess is not for timid souls.
• When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
• Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
• I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.
• A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.
• I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
• Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
• Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
• Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
• A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.