Quotes About Balance

I don't want one tournament to offset another. I want to be fresh and take full advantage of the opportunity I've been given.

I love being a parent, and when I'm gone even 2 1/2 days for a tournament, I'm forcing Janna to be a single parent.

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

I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

Pressure comes from myself, because I expect a lot, but I am trying not to put so much pressure on tournaments and to be less emotional during matches.

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most Grand Slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win little tournaments here, there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.

Before a game, I avoid having a heavy meal so that I don't feel sleepy at the board. You eat to be healthy, and that generally takes care of everything. Also, you can't be too finicky, since at tournaments you tend to eat at restaurants here and there. But, as long as you're eating sensibly, it's all good.

Being a professional chess player is not very family-friendly and I am away quite often playing tournaments, sometimes for 12 days at a time. I catch up with Gusztav every day on Skype and email but even though I miss them, I don't make a point of ringing the children every night.

There are lot of tournaments and it's hard when you have a young family.

I used to feel very tired during tournaments. I was drinking four or five coffees per day and felt I needed more.

The ATP is a difficult structure, it is 50% players, 50% tournaments. And so if you are the chairperson of that organization, it's very difficult to please everyone.

Before I had my son, I used to travel a lot, almost 40-50 days at a time for cricket tournaments.

I go to church in Argentina and I try to keep it up during the tournaments.

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

We plan tours months in advance, and you leave a few days off here and there where you feel you'll be tired after some shows, but if other opportunities keep coming in, those days get swallowed very quickly, and it's an impossibility to get this stuff right.

You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

I only do about 25 shows a year and I do not really do tours.

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