Alexander Alekhine Quotes

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Wishful thinking is no substitute for reality.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

I've argued this with a lot of people in my life. When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. Ask anyone who has been on a team with me who shoots the most. Go back to Seattle and Milwaukee and ask them. The answer is me -- not because it's a competition, but because that's how I prepare.

Step by step I'm getting my opportunities and what's important for me is to be prepared to show my best whenever possible.

As players, we look to prepare, and if opportunity comes by, we want to do well, both for ourselves and for team.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

The best thing I can do is work hard, be ready to train every day, do my best for Torino, do my best when I represent my country and then hopefully the rest will take care of itself.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

Be sure of what you want, focus, work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

optimism is a disease

Be sure of what you want work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do