Karpov Games Quotes & Sayings

It's a bitter nostalgia from a moment not yet passed. — Christina Baker Kline

You need to know, I'd go fifty-nine more. What ever it takes to let you win I'd retreat all over and all over and all over again — Colleen Hoover

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that. — Anatoly Karpov

What the eyes had seen could not be erased. — Frank Herbert

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past. — Ruth Reichl

Be more wary of the fearful than of the brave. — Meeta Ahluwalia

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality. — Vladimir Kramnik

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress. — Kal Penn

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. — Anatoly Karpov

Every culture has a myth of the world before creation, and of the creation of the world [.]
These myths are tributes to human audacity. The chief difference between them and our modern scientific myth of the Big Bang is that science is self-questioning, and that we can perform experiments and observations to test our ideas. But those other creation stories are worthy of our deep respect. — Carl Sagan

The mind creates a story in a strange way. Love keeps us together in this eternal play. — Debasish Mridha

Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time. — Bruce Pandolfini

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. — Anatoly Karpov

It ain't the heat, it's the humility. — Yogi Berra

Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch that I'd scratched so hard I was bleeding. I had set out to do the impossible, whatever the impossible might be, only to find out that it was living with myself. Suicide became an expiration date, the day after which I no longer had to try. — Maggie Stiefvater

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book! — Bobby Fischer

LIVE . LOVE . MATTER — Brendon Burchard