Polgar Quotes

#1. There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

Garry Kasparov

#2. I think that is the difference between the very good and the best.

Susan Polgar

#3. It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

Alfred Polgar

#4. When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

Susan Polgar

#5. Win with grace, lose with dignity!

Susan Polgar

#6. It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

Alfred Polgar

#7. 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.

Judit Polgar

#8. What's the matter Jaimy? Ain't-cha never seen a girl before?
-Jacky Faber

L.A. Meyer

#9. According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.

Susan Polgar

#10. Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

Alfred Polgar

#11. I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.

Susan Polgar

#12. Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

Susan Polgar

#13. Wistfully, she says, "I wish I'd been in love more than once. I think you should fall in love at least twice in high school." Then she lets out a little sigh and falls asleep. Margot falls asleep like that
one dream sigh and she's off to never-never land, just like that.

Jenny Han

#14. You know how I feel about pretty boys - there aren't enough of them in the world as it is - we can't have people wantonly removing them.

Kerry Greenwood

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

Judit Polgar

#16. I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time ...

Susan Polgar

#17. Don't let an outside influence, especially one as powerful as the media, direct your energies to the wrong place.

Susan Polgar

#18. Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Alfred Polgar

#19. 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.

Judit Polgar

#20. If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I
believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

Susan Polgar

#21. We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

Michel De Montaigne

#22. 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.

Judit Polgar

#23. The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

Alfred Polgar

#24. 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.

Judit Polgar

#25. There are no take-backs - just as in life. You must think before you move.

Susan Polgar

#26. I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.

Susan Polgar

#27. An echo from the past when, innocent
We looked upon the present with delight
And doubted not the future would be kinder
And never knew the loneliness of night.

Noel Coward

#28. The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

Horace Walpole

#29. It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Alfred Polgar

#30. Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

Susan Polgar

#31. When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

Alfred Polgar

#32. First there is the 10-second war: can you do something in your first moments on stage to ensure people's eager attention while you set up your talk topic? Second is the 1-minute war: can you then use that first minute to ensure that they're committed to coming on the full talk journey with you?

Chris J. Anderson

#33. 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.

Judit Polgar