Quotes About Competition

Every tournament I play in I fancy my chances of winning, so hopefully I can get through the first few rounds, find a bit of form and kick on.

There's three banners I want to hang - ACC regular championship, ACC tournament championship, and, of course, the national championship.

We see every game as a big game, and, as you know in tournament football, anything is possible. Each game, we want to keep raising the bar and lifting our standards and putting goals past teams.

It would clearly revolutionise boxing if we could have a tournament in every division.

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.

Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the beginning then you can win games and build confidence. I think the key is just to get off to a good start.

I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.

During a tournament, I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I'm in scoring mode.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

I want to win every single tournament that I'm playing in.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.