Quotes About Pressure

First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.

During a tournament, I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I'm in scoring mode.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

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.

For us, the Grand Slams are very important. When the Grand Slams come, you're thinking, 'OK, this is the tournament.' To lose there is disappointing.

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

I was tough on myself when I didn't finish off a tournament right.

When you get to a tournament, everybody wants to do well, especially against a seeded player.

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 had many attempts to become No. 1, and it was really tough mentally to keep believing that it would happen one day, but then it was really tough to stay there because I felt the pressure at every tournament.

It's tough to think before a tournament that you can win.

It's the worst feeling in the world - to lose in the first round at Sheffield and then have to go home - because it's such a long tournament, and it's hard to avoid it. It's on the TV all day every day, and if I lost, I didn't want to be anywhere near snooker.

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.

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.

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.

Joe Perry is always a big hurdle, he's always there in the later stages of a tournament. You have to be playing well to beat him, and if you do that you know you have a chance of winning the title.