Jack Wilshere Quotes

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

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

Important in a big tournament is how you start. With a great match at the start, you can distance yourself from the unrest from outside. And it increases the respect among opponents.

I have no doubt in my abilities that I can beat any of the top ten guys. Once I'm focused I know I can beat them.

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

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

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

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

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

I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

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.

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

When I got into this sport, I thought all I had to do was beat people and finish fights, and everything else would take care of itself.

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.

It's really important at United that you've been brought up with that winning mentality.

Just got to win games. You've just got to find ways to win games.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

I'm good enough to win multiple world titles.

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 treat every camp the same. Every fight since my debut has always been a must-win.

I approach every match with that mindset, that this guy is trying to beat you, and it will change his life if he does.

The more mental strength you have, the better. If you look at some of the best players that we have seen over the years and that I have been playing with, mentally they are the best competitors as well, something I have worked hard on.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.