John McEnroe Quotes

We wanted to harness the power of technology to make it possible for anyone to sell tickets to any type of event.

There's so many things that can go wrong, and if I'm merely playing and not hosting a festival, none of those things reflect on me.

I love musicals; I just couldn't book one to save my life.

I would not have an event before the majors. I would build them up. It very rarely happens that a player plays the week before, wins the event, and then goes on to win the slam.

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.

I was a diver. Looking back, I realize that putting yourself out there, literally, on the edge of the platform is very similar to doing live TV. It's taking the plunge and knowing, with lots of practice, it'll work out fine.

There is always a lot of work going on behind the scenes at a tournament, and that's even more true at the WTA Finals, where we have many activities during the day, and you really have to set everything up.

When you're younger, you have three or four bad results and you worry about everything. You worry about injuries, because they always seem to be your best players.

At TNA, I like to promote the time that the doors open. And they open up an hour before showtime, and you have autographs and pictures from the time you come in the door.

I always go to the Masters knowing I'm going to play well.

I always love meeting other promoters.

If you own an event, it's your job to make sure the athletes are satisfied when they fight.

It is exhilarating and dangerous to perform live. You are walking a tight rope in front of hundreds of people: anything could happen on stage, and whatever does, you must find a way to make it work.

It's not easy putting on a festival, there's a lot of moving parts.

I don't set up screenings. I can barely plan my kid's birthday party.

We always had a sense that we were the underdog. There's lots of competition and niche players. But we have every type of event on Eventbrite, whether you're a consumer or you're organizing a bacon festival. Our identity is our users.

Before important games, I don't change my preparation.

For me, it's about trying to be the best in a sport where there's little room for error.

I'm not worried about the Masters. I never worry about this tournament or that tournament.

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.

Our platform is self-service, so we enable people to host events themselves. The biggest events tend to be the free ones. We had 100,000 at a salsa congress in Mexico.

No, I don't think you can ever worry about playing not to get hurt. I think that's when you get hurt.

There's nothing I hate more than canceling shows.

I've been in tournaments before when you've been away for a while, and you're not really playing, you're just training. Sometimes you can feel like you're not really part of it.

I think it helps to know where you're at. I don't want to be coming down 18 knowing I need to make par, and trying to force a birdie or doing something stupid.