288 Quotes by Garry Kasparov

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century.

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

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

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

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