Quotes About Performance

Often, in a tournament, the players that get injured or suffer a lack of form are the guys at the cutting edge, the guys who make the difference or score the goals.

I'm usually out there grinding. You see a birdie go up on the board, and you're not thinking about how it affects the tournament because you're playing.

It's so important to do well in the first game of a tournament because it can be key in the group. If you lose, you have so much pressure on the next two games.

I don't worry about being the best keeper in the tournament. I just focus on being the best I possibly can for myself and for the team.

For me, every tournament is important, and I feel that if I don't go into them with 100 per cent focus, I will not be ready for the Grand Slams.

I think that's how it has to be in a tournament format. You can't dwell on games.

No matter the event, a Super Bowl, an NFL game, a rank-and-file golf tournament, there is a demand when you are live and exposed to try to get it right and do justice to the event. That's the way I have always approached it.

Stay in school, kids, and make sure that you play a lot of 'Street Fighter,' especially if you're going to play someone at a tournament in front of a lot of people, so you don't get beat.

Expectations run immensely high in Croatia. We may only be a small country, but people expect us to be our best at every major tournament.

I felt a ton of pressure in '08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn't a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn't as good a player as my ranking indicated.

Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.

In tournament cricket, with a new opponent each game, I think you actually need to play to your own strengths more.

I had the same game plan during a tournament when I was playing bad as when I playing good: being just as aggressive, hitting at every pin.

Every tournament that I go to, I'll prepare my absolute best to play my best golf. And if my best golf is a Top-10, then so be it.

If you are in a tournament, you have to think of yourself - you can't think of your wife or children - only about yourself. Otherwise, you wake up, eat, prepare, do everything you can to be in good shape.

It is never easy to play with Roger, Rafa and Novak in the middle of the tournament because they've had matches and are fresh.

You can play happy-go-lucky football against Brazil in a friendly but not in a tournament.

A coach needs to be a psychologist, because during a tournament you're looking after a team of players which is being watched closely and put under a lot of pressure.

For any tournament to succeed, you need the big guns to fire.

IPL is a T20 franchise tournament combining cricket and Bollywood to offer entertainment.

Playing in a big tournament is one of the biggest things for a professional footballer.

I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.

If you look at the players, they need more of a break. Some players only get as little as three weeks after a major tournament and it's straight back to the grind.

I think the core job of a coach is to select the right players for a tournament. You need players who are mentally and physically fit, who are able to deal with difficult moments.