Viswanathan Anand Quotes

Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.

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

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

All the circuit training, it's cardio circuit training, so everything you're doing, you're still running up your heart rate. You're burning, I think, triple the amount of calories than if you were just weight lifting.

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.

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of chess.

If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.

I did take part in a couple of Vishy Anand's training camps. The experience has truly been invaluable. I saw from up close the level of preparation that I should be striving for.

I still want to look good while training hard and throwing down.

You can get reps up in the gym as much as you want, hours and hours, but when it comes to a game, there's so many different aspects going on, so many different things.

I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

Some of the centre-backs are 90 kg. I'm only 70-something kilos - so I need to be strong.

In my training in the summer, back in the day, I used just go, go, go! I wouldn't take any days off, I would do whatever I wanted, as much as I wanted of it.

I've trained with some top players at Chelsea, but sometimes training is not enough.

It's easier to sit at your desk and have a bun, but I've been really disciplined because I feel like I have to give myself a chance. You can't let yourself down on that. You have to be mentally sharp in this Premier League.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.

I find outdoors easier than indoors, but I am more interested in indoor athletics. I prefer it because it is hotter indoors, and I like the shorter laps.

Everything you do off the pitch always shows so you have to work on yourself physically as well, it's not just working on your touch.

I think 1:59 is something a human being can run. Or 1:58. Who knows?! If someone trains very well and thinks in a good way, then they can do anything.

I'm a receiver. I'm not a bodybuilder.

I just want to go out there and play to my full potential, and play a healthy season, know what I'm saying?

When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.