Tournaments Quotes - Page 6

This is the shape I'm in for the tournament. I feel or I felt extremely good before the match, and I did train very, very hard to get ready for the tournament.

Andy Murray

Shapes, Ready, Feels

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I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

Paul Banks

School, House, Finishing

"Paul Banks and RZA On Their Banks & Steelz Album, Wu-Tang, and Chess". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2016.

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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.

Serena Williams

Slam, Belts

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

Lee Westwood

Success, Winning, Thinking

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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

Friends, Sports, Party

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I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

Muhammad Ali

Running, Morning, School

"Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

Serena Williams

Pain, Winning, Play

Source: www.glamour.com

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My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".

Serena Williams

Winning, Thinking, Next

Source: www.glamour.com

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You can not say you're unhappy because you have to travel, have to play this tournament, having to play sports ... You can't because you chose to play it and you love it. I'm tremendously grateful for the support I have received from my family and the close ones.

Novak Djokovic

Sports, Grateful, Play

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We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.

Shane Warne

Change, Games, Needs

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I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Golf, Player, Two

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The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him

Michel Patini

Fighting, Player, Creating

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A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.

Thomas Boswell

Golf, Golf Tournaments, Majors

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But, no, I don't feel my career has not been fulfilled because I didn't win the US Open. It's like the guy said: You going to crucify a man because he missed a putt to win a tournament? Does a three-foot putt mean his whole life? Another guy said, well, he couldn't win the big one. Well, Jesus, what do you call those others? What's big and what's small?

Sam Snead

Jesus, Mean, Golf

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If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

Robert Harris

Golf, Play, Long

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It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

David Duval

Golf, Winning, Sometimes

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In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.

Bill Vaughan

Team, School, Winning

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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

Sports, Firsts, Tough

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I feel like I've won the tournament.

Ben Crenshaw

Feels

"Crenshaw leaves Masters stage to mentee Spieth" by Jason Sobel, abcnews.go.com. April 10, 2015.

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I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.

Allen Iverson

Basketball, Mom, Home

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I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

Louis Sachar

Morning, Writing, Years

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

Boris Spassky

Play

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National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.

Steve Simmons

Guy, Finals, Four

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Id rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesnt sound too good.

Sloane Stephens

Eight, Play, Tennis

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Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court, but to have messages of support in between tournaments is really motivating.

Dominika Cibulkova

Cheer, People, Support

"Q&A: Dominika Cibulkova on Xperia Hot Shots". Interview with Ellen J. Horrow, www.usatoday.com. March 20, 2011.

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