Garry Kasparov Quotes

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
  • Mental

• Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Love
  • Game

• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Together

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Know
  • Talent
  • Chess

• It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Chess

• Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Force

• One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Only after Southwest Airlines became the most profitable airline in America did United and American challenge their long-held assumptions about how to compete. At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • American
  • America

• 'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Fear

• The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess

• In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Time
  • Chess

• Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

  

  Gabe Polsky
  • Art
  • Guy
  • Style

• In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Country
  • Suffering
  • Mankind

• The story of Dunbar shows what can happen in spite of huge legal, societal, and professional hurdles. It shows what is possible when a group of people focus and band together to make something better. Dunbar shows what happens when a stable middle class exists. And Dunbar shows us that politics pollutes education.

  

  Alison Stewart
  • Shows
  • Happen
  • Hurdles

• I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Education
  • Health
  • Space

• I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way that I think is more realistic. The technology just wasn't there up until pretty recently, and it takes a bit of time for the normal artistic way of approaching something to become a mainstream thing.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess