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

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

The World Cup is a tough tournament.

AB de Villiers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adrian Lewis

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

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

Adrian Lewis

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

Adrian Lewis

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

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

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

Aleksei Oleinik

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

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

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

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

Alex Scott