81 Quotes by Anatoly Karpov

I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

I like 1.e4 very much but my results with 1.d4 are better.

Style, I’ve got no style.

It doesn’t require much for misfortune to strike in the King’s Gambit – one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

You can’t play chess if you’re groggy from pills.