62 Quotes by Judit Polgar

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don’t have this when you play a computer. I can’t confuse it.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

I think it’s very natural to get nervous. I’ve usually got concerns about a specific thing in the opening which might worry me. I have to be relaxed and balanced emotionally and then I can concentrate on the moves during the game. Then things will be ok.

Chess demolishes differences. It's a language of different generations.

How you lose matters. Don't be afraid of losing - it paralyzes you.

I believe that I am as tough as other women who are very successful and have had to prove their abilities over and over again.