Best Tournament Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“There were players inside of the U.S. that could challenge me and beat me every week, and I wasn't winning every single USTA tournament that I was playing.”

“I got to know when I need to take three or four days off and when I need to not go to a tournament and spend some days at home with my family or friends, and I'm different than most.”

“Sometimes, you don't want to go to a tournament. I'm not going to lie - I have felt this way a few times already.”

“I want to win the U.S. Open. I don't care if it's in the final against a qualifier or against Novak. I just want to win this tournament.”

“I want to win every tournament I play in, without putting pressure on myself.”

“There's only one winner at every single tournament.”

“I think you take something away from every tournament.”

“When I was in college, I think my last match maybe was the first match aired live, but otherwise if you were going to watch the tournament, it was a few weeks later at 3 in the morning.”

“Getting two hundreds in a T20 tournament like the Maharaja Trophy feels amazing.”

“I mean any tournament, any World Cup is always tough, particularly the T20 World Cup.”

“I think at the end of your career you'll look back and say I wish I would have won every FedEx you had a chance to win because it's a big tournament.”

“I take very seriously every tournament.”

“Everyone knows the British Open is my favorite tournament.”

“Going into a tournament, I try not to think about winning but I certainly won't be afraid if I get into position.”

“Every tournament is important to me and I need to give my best.”

“It's a World Cup, there's no easy games in this tournament.”

“The FIFA Confederations Cup is a major event, and a success in this tournament can make a team stronger.”

“I've played at the top level for years now and know it's the small percentages that matter. That's what the difference is between you getting to a major tournament or not.”

“I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.”

“You dream of making birdies on 18 to win a tournament.”

“Sometimes you feel like you're playing very well and, for some reason, you just don't win the tournament.”

“When you start a round with a two-shot lead, it always looks like a big lead and always looks as if you should go on to win a tournament.”

“As a kid everyone has dreams of winning their ultimate tournament and being number one in the world.”

“When you play the same tournament as Federer, Murray, Djokovic and Rafa, they have more media than me, for sure.”

“Against Federer, is not easy to share the fan's love. He is a local around the world in every tournament.”

“I'm one of those guys if I'm 100 percent and fit and ready for the tournament, I play very good tennis.”

“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.”

“When I went to Q school, I was walking into a tournament where 500 other players all wanted the same thing as me.”

“The Matchplay is a straight knock-out tournament so everybody is under pressure straight away - I prefer that.”

“I think everyone will agree that it doesn't matter how we get to an international tournament. We are going to do whatever it takes.”

“The facts are, when we played here, we were treated better in Greensboro than any other tournament venue.”

“I am only trying to improve as a player with each tournament, each game, each opportunity.”

“It was hard growing up because there was nothing close. I never went to a golf tournament.”

“The World Cup is a tough tournament.”

“Stay in school, kids, and make sure that you play a lot of 'Street Fighter,' especially if you're going to play someone at a tournament in front of a lot of people, so you don't get beat.”

“It's tough to think before a tournament that you can win.”

“Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.”

“In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.”

“Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.”

“You cannot just play tournament after tournament like maybe I did when I was 23, 24 years old.”

“I think, in a tournament, things are always a little more exciting.”

“When I was a player, and since then, we have never been so snobbish as to go into a tournament saying, 'We will win this World Cup.' We aren't like that.”

“When you get to a tournament, everybody wants to do well, especially against a seeded player.”

“It's so important to do well in the first game of a tournament because it can be key in the group. If you lose, you have so much pressure on the next two games.”

“The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.”

“I like to come to a tournament with a specific playlist that I can listen to before going on the court. I like five or 10 minutes just for myself.”

“To have a tournament right where you live is very cool.”

“When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.”

“I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.”

“Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.”

“Previously, people were like, 'She might win the tournament,' but now it's like, 'She should win the tournament.'”

“Each tournament is different.”

“One tournament win doesn't make you perfect.”

“Every player would love to play a tournament like the World Cup at home.”

“I always feel if I work hard, if I can practice 100%, then the results will come. Whether it's the first tournament, the third tournament, it's going to come.”

“I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.”

“Every tournament is important.”

“You can definitely lose a tournament. You can't win it on the first day.”

“To win a tournament like the Afcon, sometimes quality alone is not enough.”

“If you go into a tournament thinking that you're not going to do anything, you might as well not be there because you won't achieve anything.”

“That's the reason we play this game - to make it to the tournament, and to try to win games once you get in it.”

“When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.”

“I'm not a big proponent of the league tournament.”

“I think all the players dream to get to the AFCON tournament. It is a big tournament.”

“The knockout games of a major tournament are when you see players' true characters.”

“For me, it doesn't matter what tournament is coming up, whether it's a major or something else. I'm going to be present and excited to go out and compete each week.”

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

“I try not to treat the AO differently to any other tournament. But naturally, it's one where I really want to do my best.”

“There is nothing like Wimbledon. When I think about tennis, I think about this tournament.”

“I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.”

“I want to win every single tournament that I'm playing in.”

“I consider the All England as like any normal super series tournament.”

“One tournament can change everything for you. You never know when that tournament might be.”

“Every tournament's different.”

“I'm a tournament guy; that's what I grew up doing.”

“Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.”

“I've taken two weeks off before I've played a major, and I've played two straight weeks before a major as well. I definitely feel it's important, whether I've taken time off or played right before, that I take necessary rest time in the weeks before the tournament.”

“I was tough on myself when I didn't finish off a tournament right.”

“You still have to go perform; it doesn't matter what the tournament is.”

“Every tournament is important for me.”

“I've always wanted to be in a tournament since I was a little guy in this sport.”

“The U.S. Open was the first tournament I watched in person when I was 8 years old.”

“It is every player's dream to play at a world tournament.”

“Sometimes you play a first round of an ATP tournament where there's 50 people watching you on a small court.”

“I try to win every tournament.”

“Control what you can control, and just do everything you can, and see what happened by the end of the tournament.”

“Rest is huge because if you're sleep-deprived, that can definitely run into the mental side of the game and can definitely hurt your game if you're playing tournament golf.”

“I've got some wonderful memories of the 2011 Copa America. It was a very special tournament.”

“You never know with tournament football anything can happen and you just have to be ready.”

“Basketball is a five-player game, only five people can play, but when you're growing up there's 10 players on a team usually and some kids, they can go a tournament and score two points, but they're gonna remember those two points. Since I was a kid, that's always been fun.”