Quotes About Competition

I'm happy to go into Melbourne, one of my favourite tournaments there.

If you're not in the top three or four, you have to play a lot of tournaments.

I had a really great career. I have won over 300 matches, won a bunch of tournaments, almost won a bunch of big tournaments, beaten a lot of good players and done more things than I ever could have imagined.

We'd like to encourage more regional and national tournaments for our paralympians so they can regularly compete and hone their skills.

I think tournaments are starting to become a bit more open with more players able to fight, and I want to be part of that bright future.

Some weeks I play well and beat a bunch of players and do super-well in tournaments.

Tournaments are won on the last day, not the first.

I've always been a fan of martial arts, even before I did jiu-jitsu tournaments. I did point karate tournaments and wrestled in high school. To me, it was just an evolution and mixed martial arts was the next step. I just wanted to compete and train in it. I had no illusions of it being a paying gig.

I was on a competitive 'Halo' team, and we would enter tournaments for money.

I've played in tournaments around the world, and had success, but winning a Test is one of those indescribable feelings, especially against a really good team. Nothing compares.

My goal is to be competing to win tournaments that I'm playing instead of just content with making a quarter.

I'm entering tournaments every week trying to win.

I think the tournament is maybe the most fair way to fight for a title because, basically, it's a ranking system. It's an elimination system, so you gotta go through the tournaments to face the champion.

I think I will have a lot of chance for big tournaments, especially grand slams.

It's tough situation for Asian players because all the tournaments in Europe and U.S. It's not easy to go and come back all the time.

Yeah, there are good facilities in Japan and good coaches, but the toughest thing is you need to play a lot of tournaments in Europe or U.S., because they have more good players.

I played as many golf tournaments as I could. I killed time by playing and practicing. It's something I love to do; it's fun and I was good at it.

You cannot be on leaderboards at big tournaments all the time and have things go your way all the time.

What got me to where I am today is a hunger and a desire to win tournaments, and all the trappings that came with that.

I doubt anyone has ever accused comedians of solidarity before. It's hard to think of a less collegiate world than that of unabashed professional narcissists competing for attention; even when we reluctantly band together on panel shows, we're only trying to sell solo tours.

Absolutely, in stage races, Froome is better than Eddy Merckx. Maybe he can win five, six Tours de France, but my focus wasn't only on the Tour de France. I was riding all year.

'A' tours can be considered as a stepping stone to getting into the national team, so they are really important.

It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.

I believe that tours should be only three Tests. With the amount of these things that is taking place, you will find that once you go for five-Test match series, 80-90% of the times the home team will win and you will see teams going straight down after the third match.