“How you lose matters. Don't be afraid of losing - it paralyzes you.” — Judit Polgar Quote

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

If you are in a tournament, you have to think of yourself - you can't think of your wife or children - only about yourself. Otherwise, you wake up, eat, prepare, do everything you can to be in good shape.

When the Ladies Chess Club was founded in London in 1895 and the first international women-only competition took place two years later, most clubs and competitions didn't accept women at all.

I believe that for the audience the best way to give the commentating is to avoid going into the deep, deep details.

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

My style during the day is very casual - boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I'm not afraid to push the envelope.

I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

It's not that I'm afraid to be tagged with the label of right-wing or even centre-right; I just don't believe it properly describes either the choice that we face politically or what I'm trying to say.