If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.

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

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

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

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain.

The one who can smile without an outer reason is a mental case for many, but the one who cannot ‘needs mental therapy!

Love is the matter of souls....in which body is trivial aspect but the tragic part is that people believe what is seen.

Are you smiling when you talk? Try it today, and I guarantee you will notice a difference in your life.

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

America can only live up to its potential when each and every American has the chance to live up to your potential, too.

Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.