I build my body by swimming and discipline my mind by Bridge.

Deng Xiaoping

I am an avid player of Bridge which has unique characteristics as sport.

Bill Gates

I wouldnt mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge.

Warren E. Buffet

Mind Sports entertain people most and chess is the best of them. Chess is pleasing as love and music.

Tarrasch

Chess is the most important game which helps to develop intelligence.

Voltaire

Chess is essential to every happy family.

Alexander Pushkin

We should have an all-around understanding of the important impacts sports bring to us, namely building up a good physique and improve peoples health, fostering peoples values, carrying forward the national spirit, sharpening peoples intellect, and enriching peoples lives.

Chen Zhili (State Councilor)

We hope that the holding of 2008 the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing can promote the development of board and card games in China, even all around the world.

Fan Guangsheng (Deputy Director-General of the Board and Card Games Administrative Center of the General Administration of Sport of China)