Tournament Success Quotes

My wrestling dream was to become a Division I national champion. That was my No. 1 dream - not Olympics, not money. Just winning that tournament.

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

We have to be playing near-perfect football to go and win a World Cup.

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

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.

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

My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.

I've won the U.S. Championship. I've won a lot of tournaments.

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

And my job is to look at the future of English cricket and develop a side that is capable of winning important series and tournaments in the next four years. And that is what I am going to concentrate on doing.

[Wayne Rooney] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.

I remember, the first CZW show I went to was 'Best of the Best 7,' and I loved the entire tournament. So, for me, to three years later go and win the tournament was very, very cool and sort of a full-circle moment for me, and certainly something I'll never forget.

Confidence is the most important thing in this sport, and the confidence from winning Wimbledon would make it easier to win the Olympics, too. Either would be very difficult, both even more-but the player who wins Wimbledon will be the favorite for the Olympics. It can happen.

I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.

It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That's not an issue. But I think that is the same for most athletes. If you don't believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can't do it.

Winning a tournament at the end of the year boosts your confidence a lot.

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

I want to be at the end stages of every tournament that I play - every time.

All the tournaments I enter I want to win, but especially in one of the biggest arenas we play in.

If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best

I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.

Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.