94 Quotes by Viswanathan Anand

I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.

India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.

When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.

Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that, it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in, but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.