Garry Kasparov Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

  Garry Kasparov

  Loss, Fighting, Childhood

  "The Tsar's Opponent" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2007.

• If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Fighting, Decision

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

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Fighting, Impact

• People's minds are polluted by these dark pictures of the future from Hollywood: "The Terminator," the Skynet, "The Matrix." It's world where there's no room for humans, or they have to fight against the machines. I think it's just a way, way, way, way in the future. Is it going to happen? I don't know. For me, these debates are not similar, but they resemble debates about how the sun will turn into a supernova in 4 to 5 billion years. Frankly, I don't care.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fighting, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fighting, Blow, Want

  "How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the Boardroom". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

• My life is split in three parts; I don't know the percentage. One could be called "chess" - the Kasparov Chess Foundation, promoting the game, training young players, playing on the internet, sometimes exhibitions. The second area would be "writing" - books, articles, Twitter, Facebook. And then "political activity" - fighting for human rights and democracy, so TV, interviews, speeches.

  Garry Kasparov

  Book, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fighting, Police, Democracy

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

  Garry Kasparov

  Jobs, Fighting, Russia

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

• When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fighting, Fundraising, Russia

• If people are being left behind, impoverished economically or even culturally, they will always be easily targeted by demagogues of any stripe, exploiting their hate and fear and making impossible promises. That impoverishment is more likely if we fight a doomed battle against automation and new technology, when what those people need most is the ambitious new tech that is the only proven way to create sustainable industries and jobs.

  Garry Kasparov

  Hate, Fighting, Technology

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• One lesson is to not to play desperately if your position is worse but still reasonable. Lashing out wildly in an inferior position usually only hastens defeat. Meanwhile, solid, stubborn defense can demoralize the attacker, make him lose confidence. When that happens, the tables can turn. Keep fighting, stay steady, keep morale high - and public protests are good for all of these things.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fighting, Stubborn, Defeat

  "A top Putin critic on how to oppose Trump: 'making him look like a loser is crucial'". Interview with Alexander Bisley, www.vox.com. February 11, 2017.

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