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I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.

My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

Winning is irrelevant when you’re 11 or 12 years old. It really is it. At youth tournaments, I look at the technical ability of the players. Whether the team wins or loses - I don’t care.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

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

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.

If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

I feel like I've won the tournament.

Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court, but to have messages of support in between tournaments is really motivating.

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.

It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.

It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.

What I like to do is to try to win as many tournaments and as many majors as I can, and with him [Tiger Woods] in the field, it just gives it more credibility, whatever it is I am able to accomplish.

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.

You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament.

This is a tournament. The others are all championships.

I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

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

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

I don't go thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can.

My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.