Quotes About Focus

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

You still have to go perform; it doesn't matter what the tournament is.

I try to focus on more winning matches here and try to go forward rather than the ranking because is the first step, to win matches, getting far in tournament, and we see after.

I don't want to retire before the tournament starts for me.

It could be very costly if you don't have a clear mind during a tournament.

When I grew up, I never - I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.

I used to either lose in my first or second match or I would go very far in the tournament. So I've been saying to myself, 'Come on, you've got to get through these first two matches. They're very tough. Because afterwards you feel different.' So I'm really putting my energy into getting through to those later rounds.

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.

Every tournament is important for me.

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.

Every tournament is important.

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.

Going into a tournament with 100 per cent belief you will win it - that's how I've always enjoyed snooker.

During a big tournament, it is the small details that make big differences.

I want to be at the end stages of every tournament that I play - every time.

I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That's what I play for.

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

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.