#tournaments

If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again. ↗

— Chris Evert

#cloud #confident #eager #get #gets

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff. ↗

— Michael Chang

#aspects #certain #get #i #i think

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

#accompanying #army #career #chess #continue

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#i #play #some #tournaments

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#another #became #called #changed #finals

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. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#consistency #contending #every #had #i

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

— Lee Westwood

#poorly #thinking #tournaments #well #win

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ↗

— Michelle Wie

#get #getting #i #keep #men

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it. ↗

— Serena Williams

#balance #choose #definitely #different #different things

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty. ↗

— Venus Williams

#come #conversations #cruel #dirty #friends