Garry Kasparov Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

• 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.

• 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.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Loss, Keys

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different.

  Garry Kasparov

  Retirement, Fall, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I can't think of a scenario under which [Vladimir Putin] would gradually resign from power. For him and those around him, power became a source of unlimited enrichment. A loss of power would be tantamount to an annihilation of the economic success that has been achieved so far.

  Garry Kasparov

  Loss, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.rferl.org

• The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss of power could lead to repercussions in Russian society.

  Garry Kasparov

  Self Confidence, Loss, Russia

  Source: www.rferl.org

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