"I am lucky, .. that the popular sport……" — Garry Kasparov

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union… - Garry Kasparov

"I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball."

— Garry Kasparov

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129 Quotes by Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov has 129 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come…
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are…
Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one…
In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca…
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my…
Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of…
Chess is mental torture.
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to…
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the…
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if…
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous…

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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change… — Yogi Berra

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