Vladimir Kramnik Quotes

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

You never know what can happen in football. It's football.

I think everyone expects if you're in the lead, or if you're a favourite to win, you will win, and if you don't, then you're in a slump. It's not the case.

You never know what's going to happen in football.

You never know what will happen in football.

Football is a sport where you never know what is going to happen between one match and the next.

In practice, there is no consequence. If you miss a ball, you just pick up another ball and serve again, or you come back the next day and play. In the matches, every point has got a consequence. If you lose, you don't come back the next day and play.

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

What a strange turn of events.

I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play.

I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.