Oliver Kahn Quotes

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.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table - mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

If I'm not Top 10 or seeded every tournament, it really doesn't matter. I can beat anyone on a good day.

It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.

All top players have an edge to them.

You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.

I've been in opening matches of pay-per-views. I've been in main events of pay-per-views, and the same mentality is applied to both, and that is, 'To this point, this is the biggest match of my life, and I'm gonna go out there and give it everything I have.'

The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.

Big-time players make big-time plays in big-time spots. That's who I want to be.

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.

Whenever we're all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There's a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it's all about winning, and it's all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.

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 can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

I work better under pressure. I was the local badminton champion when I was a kid, and there was another girl who used to thrash me for the five days leading up to the tournament and then I would just nail her to the floor in the competition.

Once you reach the knockout stage of a World Cup, the team that holds its nerves wins.

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.

The way I operate as a football player and the product that I put on the field in relation to the business that I conduct, I want it to be as tough as possible in practice so when I get into the games I've been there before.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.