In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

He extended his hand, and one by one, everyone put their hands on top of his as a show of unity.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

[ Drizzy] is a good dude , he's been looked out and reached out, and I admire the talent.

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.