"To be champion requires more than simply being……" — Anatoly Karpov
"To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well."
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Anatoly Karpov
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48 Quotes by Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Karpov has 48 quotes on this site.
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
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The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely…
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No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that
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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
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In Kansas I have a chess school
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After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess…
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I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small…
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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that…
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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors
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I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
— Roger Bannister
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One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the…
— Mortimer Adler
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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
— Ken Blanchard
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a…
— Usain Bolt
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
— Usain Bolt
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
— Bear Bryant
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We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
— Eric Cantona
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But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors…
— Donald Cargill
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life…
— Muhammad Ali
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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
— Jimmy Carter
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
— Chris Evert
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