There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.
There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.
It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.
Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.
The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
She dreamed about knights in armour and glorious quests, and sometimes in these dreams she was a knight and sometimes she was a lovely lady who watched a particular knight and hoped that, when he won the tournament, it would be she to who he came, an...
I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.
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.
I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.
The media has dubbed me as someone who can only get up for the big tournaments, and that is not who I want to be.
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.
It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.
At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at...
I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.
It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
