Tournaments Quotes - Page 9

• Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

  David Walker

  Fishing, Get Better, Screw Ups

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• Rafa being 6-1 against Roger is not a source of pride for me. I'm happy that Rafa won the tournament, but I would have liked that Federer could have won the Grand Slam, because I think he's a phenomenal player. For me, he is the player I enjoy watching the most.

  Toni Nadal

  Pride, Player, Thinking

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• I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.

  John Daly

  Drinking, Golf, Thinking

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• After being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.

  Chris Evert

  Senior, Thinking, Play

  "'I've Lived A Charmed Life'". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

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• King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.

  Horace Walpole

  Religious, Kings, Husband

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• There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Eagles, People

  Source: query.nytimes.com

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• Unlike most youngsters who have school as their second home where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.

  Saina Nehwal

  Fun, Home, School

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• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  Yani Tseng

  Country, Winning, Play

  "Safeway Classic Presented By Coca-Cola". Interview with Kelly Thesier, www.asapsports.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Going to a major tournament, having that buzz - it's hard to put into words. It's a dream to go there, and to play. It's the biggest thing you can achieve in your career, and to go again would be a dream.

  Jermain Defoe

  Dream, Play, Careers

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• To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the beginning then you can win games and build confidence. I think the key is just to get off to a good start.

  Jermain Defoe

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• The bad thing about the [tennis] calendar is how it is made and obligates you to play tournaments all year. If you want to achieve the most you can (and) go as high up (in the rankings) as you can, you have to play from the start to the finish because there are important tournaments from the beginning to the end.

  Rafael Nadal

  Years, Play, Tennis

  Source: in.reuters.com

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• Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.

  Charlie Rose

  Winning, Sometimes, Should

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.

  Arnold Palmer

  Desire, Remember, Made

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

  Arnold Palmer

  School, Golf, Juniors

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about.

  Arnold Palmer

  Couple, Airplane, Engineering

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• When I'm frustrated that I'm not doing well in a tournament I cut my own hair, just lop it all off. I've probably made a right mess of it, but luckily I wear a cap when I play.

  Andy Murray

  Cutting, Play, Hair

  "INTERROGATION: Andy Murray". Mirror Online Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. July 1, 2007.

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• I'd like to say that I am romantic person, but I don't think I am. When I won my first tournament I went into the crowd and kissed my girlfriend. I was 18 and didn't have my coach with me, I was there on my own, and I just needed to celebrate with someone I knew. I always start out with good intentions. I'll say something nice, then I'll just put my foot in it and ruin the moment.

  Andy Murray

  Girlfriend, Nice, Thinking

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• It's difficult to relax on tournaments, even in posh hotels, because you don't know how long you will be there - whether you'll lose a match on the first day and leave or whether you'll stay for longer.

  Andy Murray

  Long, Relax, Firsts

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• But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately copying anything new. What is really important for every team is to be aware of its own capabilities and find a style which plays to one's own strengths.

  Michael Ballack

  Soccer, Team, Play

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

  Juan Manuel Marquez

  Brother, Father, Eight

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• Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

  Joe Tex

  Southern, Regions, Bowls

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• As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.

  Bjorn Borg

  Beautiful, Strong, Mean

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• The biggest thing right now is to know that I just didn't give up. It would have been the easiest thing for me to just go ahead and pull out of the tournament with what has been going on over the last week - just to be up there with my mum and support her. But I really wanted to come down here and play with Adam (Scott) and really try to win the World Cup and we achieved that which was great.

  Jason Day

  Giving Up, Winning, Play

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• I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.

  Bubba Watson

  Sports, Golf, Winning

  "Solomon: 'Bubba from Bagdad' now a major golf name". Interview, www.chron.com. April 8, 2012.

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• 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.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Winning, Games

  "CNN exclusive with Jack Nicklaus and Rory McIlroy". "Living Golf" with Shane O'Donoghue, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. June 7, 2012.

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