288 Quotes by Garry Kasparov

In a 1959 speech in Indianapolis, John F. Kennedy famously observed that the Chinese word for ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity. It turns out that this is not literally true.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary’s Judit Polgar.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance.

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen’s Front National in France.

I’ve seen – both in myself and my competitors – how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren’t as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you’ll succeed; make bad ones and you’ll fail.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don’t back down.

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

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones.