Quotes About Competition

In the past, we won tournaments with lots of fighting and lots of hard running.

Sometimes you go through a few tournaments without having a five-setter.

In juniors, you travel with about 12 other players and you all go to the same tournaments and practise together so it's like being with your friends.

Snooker's only popular in China now. Well China's OK to go to once or twice a year but to go and play six or seven tournaments there is too much.

I always knew I could win tournaments in the U.K. but there was a question mark over whether I could deal with playing in China.

You look at the guys who are winning tournaments , Ronnie, Ding, Mark Selby, Marco Fu - none of them are overweight, they are the slimmer guys on tour.

The point is to win the biggest tournaments and beat the biggest guys head to head. Then, if the computer ranking works out that you are No 1 in the world so be it.

When your friends win tournaments it is good for you in a way because it does fire you up. You see what it means to them and know you would like to enjoy the same thing.

My aim is to win as many tournaments as I play in but some people absolutely love snooker.

I'm playing in the best tournaments in the world with the best players in the world. That's good stuff. It's great. The extra attention hasn't made a difference to me.

I've won the U.S. Championship. I've won a lot of tournaments.

I used to make it deep in poker tournaments without ever moving all-in because other players knew that when I raised it up, I had the goods.

There doesn't need to be hatred after a fight, because it's all said and done. I'm cool with a lot of my opponents in the UFC. There's people I've fought who were my friends in kickboxing tournaments and after we were still cool.

Since retiring from competitive chess, my focus is on education and organising children's tournaments: I make a point of never separating girls and boys, nor awarding special prizes for girls.

Ronnie is the greatest player to have ever picked up a snooker cue. People have said that about me. But although I won 50 or so tournaments I never picked up the world championship. That was a little bit of a disappointment.

When I started playing all the players were trying to sell the game of snooker. Nowadays the prize money is so great, competing in tournaments is no laughing matter.

Some tournaments wouldn't work as men's and women's event but others would.

To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.

You build yourself up for the big series, the big tournaments.

Anything that would help me get my ranking up and get me seeded at tournaments will make my draws a lot easier and give me a much better opportunity to go deep in these tournaments.

Grand Slams are four tournaments a year, so of course those are the big ones, those are the ones that people and us players want to do our best at. It's just high level quality of tennis.

Obviously, I want to do well in all tournaments, but if I had to pick, for sure Paris.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

Yeah, definitely on a mission now to compete to try to be winning these tournaments I'm playing.