Quotes About Achievement

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.

I can't think of anything in my profession that would mean as much. You can talk about Emmys or Super Bowls. Fifty Masters Tournaments, that would be the ultimate.

The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if but when.

I think one of the important things around tournaments and qualifying tournaments is the jeopardy around it.

My first major championships was in 2005, which makes me feel ancient. I'm really proud of playing in all the tournaments, yet I can have all the caps in the world, but there's no point if you don't have a gold medal.

I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams and all that.

We have regularly won medals at all tournaments and I think after 'Dangal,' the craze for wrestling increased among the girls.

I would like to work 50 Masters Tournaments.

You have to beat the best if you want to win tournaments.

It has sunk into my head that I want to be winning four or five tournaments a season.

All the tournaments I enter I want to win, but especially in one of the biggest arenas we play in.

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.

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.

Now I want to push on, I don't want to be remembered for just winning one world title, I want to go on and win as many big tournaments as possible.

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

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.

We know how hard it is to travel around and if the schedules are really tight for you, it means you're doing really well because you're not going home early from many events. When you go deep in tournaments, that's the consequence you have to pay I suppose.

I want to be remembered for as many tournaments as I can win and as many grand slams I can win.

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.

For years, I didn't feel like I belonged in the second week of Grand Slam tournaments. I just wasn't good enough. But when the 2016 U.S. Open rolled around, I knew, for whatever reason, I was going to make a splash.

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.

That has alway been the goal. To be the best in the world, to win major tournaments.

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