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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

One guy might be ranked higher, but it doesn't mean anything. Where these fights go, lots of things can happen.

I know lots of people who climb very high in the rankings without winning a single title.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.

Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure.