I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were not known in Europe. For hundreds of years, the Romans couldn't make a cavalry which proved to be extremely effective.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.