Because we're playing tournaments week in and week out I'd think to myself, 'What's the point in practising?' You have no down time to yourself and you're looking for some to spend with your family and friends. But I've now realised that with the game so cut-throat and standards going up every week, it doesn't work.

Adrian Lewis

When I was younger, I'd always forget stuff. I think there was probably 4-5 times where we'd drive 30 minutes to a town for the baseball tournament, and all of a sudden, I'd get to the field and look in my bag, and I didn't have my cleats. So my dad had to race all the way home to get my cleats and get back before the game started so I could play.

Aaron Judge

Time Men Home

The World Cup is a tough tournament.

AB de Villiers

Men World Cup World

It will never be much fun until a Proteas team finally goes out and wins one of these ICC limited-overs tournaments. That will happen one day.

AB de Villiers

Men Wins Win

There are big tournaments going on around the world, and some of them you cannot ignore because, financially, they make a huge difference in our lives.

AB de Villiers

Men You World

Money wasn't the motivating factor in calling time on my international career and focusing on T20 cricket. If I was here to make as much money as I can, I would be playing 10 to 12 tournaments a year.

AB de Villiers

Time Money Men

Yes, I would have loved to win it, but I have great memories from World Cups. The 2007 tournament - my first - was very special.

AB de Villiers

Men Love Great

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.

Adam Cole

Mom Men Love

In a way getting fired up for these matches is what makes the Premier League the hardest tournament for me. Knowing I can lose and still be in the tournament probably makes me relax too much sometimes.

Adrian Lewis

Time Men Wing

You have to put in the extra hours away from the tournament. There's no other option.

Adrian Lewis

Men You Way

Sometimes we complain about being on the road all the time, from tournaments to exhibitions and sponsors' appearances, but really it's a doddle.

Adrian Lewis

Time Men Tournaments

Because we're playing tournaments week in and week out I'd think to myself, 'What's the point in practising?' You have no down time to yourself and you're looking for some to spend with your family and friends. But I've now realised that with the game so cut-throat and standards going up every week, it doesn't work.

Adrian Lewis

Work Time Men

When I start winning big tournaments I don't think I'll just win tournaments, I think I'll blow them away.

Adrian Lewis

Men Art Winning

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

Adrian Lewis

Men Way Very

If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

Agnieszka Radwanska

Men Home Good

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

Al Alvarez

Money Men Your

My first professional fight was a tournament with maybe one or two thousand people there.

Aleksei Oleinik

Men Wit USA

It's funny, each time you come back to a tournament you start to feel more and more welcome. It gets familiar. That was one of the biggest things that's helped me.

Alex de Minaur

Time Men Funny

To be picked for your country at any stage is a massive honour, and to be at a huge tournament likes the Euros is such a bonus.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Men Age Your

Being away with a national side at a tournament can be hard - you train, go back to your hotel, and often, you sit in your room, watching TV or speaking to people at home. If there's no communal area, it can feel like being in prison, staring at the same four walls all the time.

Alex Scott

Time Men Home

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

Alex Scott

Men You True

I've been to so many deals with so many of my peers. I hate to say it, but you go, and it's some tournament or big party or dinner, and you don't even know what you're raising money for. It's like, 'Oh, it's for the kids.' Thanks. But what are you doing?

Alex Smith

The Olympic Games is the most important tournament for Russian guys.

Alexander Ovechkin

I had a lot of success in big tournaments as well - won Masters Series in Rome - so a lot of things are coming together. I've done a lot of hard work in the off-season. A lot of physical work, a lot of work on my serve and on my return game.

Alexander Zverev

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm's golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I'm so competitive, I don't want to go and just pretend I'm a good golfer.

Ali Krieger

Every tournament's different.

Ali Krieger

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

Amelie Mauresmo

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

Amelie Mauresmo

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

Amelie Mauresmo

When I was starting out, it was almost impossible for me to get visas to travel to tournaments.

Ana Ivanovic

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.

Ana Ivanovic

I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days.

Ana Ivanovic

Pressure comes from myself, because I expect a lot, but I am trying not to put so much pressure on tournaments and to be less emotional during matches.

Ana Ivanovic

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

Andre Agassi

Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.

Andre Agassi

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

Andre Agassi

Germany are always among the favourites at major tournaments.

Andre Schurrle

Once you get a feeling for trophies and going far in European tournaments with your club, then you want to replicate that with your country.

Andrew Robertson

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.

Andrew Strauss

I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now!

Andriy Shevchenko

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

Andy Murray

Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well.

Andy Murray

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

Andy Murray

If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don't know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

Andy Roddick

I don't know that I'll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate. I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home.

Andy Roddick

I don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.

Angelique Kerber

Critics who have said a safer shot here or there would undoubtedly have won me a few more tournaments are probably correct. Going for the green in two was who I was as a boy - and it's who I remain as a man.

Arnold Palmer

Any time you enter a tournament before a slam, there's always the possibility you'll be arriving late. It's a very good problem to have.

Ashleigh Barty

I think women's tennis is so open. Anyone in the top 30 can do damage in the big tournaments.

Ashleigh Barty

I can picture it now, where I grew and me playing in the cage where I used to play. To see what I've achieved and where I've been, the countries I've seen, tournaments I've played in, players I've played against, it's incredible.

Ashley Cole