Quotes About Competition

I didn't care about the Pride championship or the Pride tournament.

I'm not at my physical peak, but if I can still beat guys, many of whom were born after I won my first tournament, that's a great accomplishment.

We surprised ourselves in '84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn't yet until we won the gold medal.

In golf, you definitely have your ranking. But it's a bit different than tennis. Whenever there's a golf tournament, you feel like almost anyone can win.

When you start a round with a two-shot lead, it always looks like a big lead and always looks as if you should go on to win a tournament.

I feel like I always win at least a round or two at every tournament. I don't go out in the first round too often.

Against Federer, is not easy to share the fan's love. He is a local around the world in every tournament.

When you play the same tournament as Federer, Murray, Djokovic and Rafa, they have more media than me, for sure.

That's the reason we play this game - to make it to the tournament, and to try to win games once you get in it.

We've had a taste of tournament football now and we want more of it.

If you win even one tournament or medal, people can think they have become big.

In tennis that's the beauty. You can always suit up the next week and play another tournament and always have the chance to win it.

Wherever I'm at, if I'm playing well I can put myself into a position to win any tournament, including grand slams.

The Latin teams have this idea that they can't beat a good team in the same tournament twice.

I can help promote the sport best by competing better, rather than playing poorly and losing out in the tournament early.

If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can't stop me going to fight a boxing fight.

The 'Halo' series is my favorite. Me and my friends actually played in tournaments and won some money doing that when we were younger.

Irrespective of who's up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own strengths to get as far as I can, and tried to adapt my game according to the match-situation.

There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.

I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.

Some tournaments maybe are important for others, while some are important for me.

Sometimes we complain about being on the road all the time, from tournaments to exhibitions and sponsors' appearances, but really it's a doddle.

When tournaments are on the horizon, I feel teams in general and particularly England get stronger because everyone wants to show they should be in the XI.

It is for me to realise my value and put in the effort to win big tournaments.