Garry Kasparov Quotes

All women are inferior to men.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

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

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

Chess is mental torture.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

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