Quotes About Performance

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.

I don't pick tournaments to score or rivals or other teams to score against. I'm a striker: every game I play, I want to score.

Movement is one of the most important things. My consistency, everything - there's a lot to improve. Coaches are never happy. But I'd like to keep improving, go deeper in the tournaments, and get as high in the rankings as possible.

You may be the best team in the world, but you can't win all the tournaments. That's what the media does not understand.

I don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.

I prefer playing ATP tournaments and Davis Cup competition rather than Olympic Games.

Germany are a tournament team. I don't know why that is, perhaps the mentality. We always look forward to tournaments. We also believe we can always perform well.

A competitive HIL means that India will be able to field a stronger team in the international tournaments.

I had to get used to the TV tournaments and the big stages.

Before I was going into tournaments and just hoping I would win one match. But now I'll go into tournaments expecting to do well and if I bring my best game I know I can win them and beat all the big players.

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.

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

My agent and I usually have a steak-and-wine dinner on Wednesdays before tournaments. It's a good source of protein for the night before, and it helps me sleep before the opening round.

There are so many tournaments when I started this way. I was so shy. I didn't really play well. And then all of a sudden I found the very strong, powerful Gael Monfils.

Our job as players is to show up to tournaments, put on a show for The R&A and for the Tour and to handle our business.

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.

The pressure on the English national team has always been very big at all the big 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.

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

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

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.