Tournaments Quotes

• When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Want, Wells

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• When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.

  Karch Kiraly

  Sleep, Winning, Competition

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• I just travel all the time.

  Ivan Lendl

  Travel, Schedules, Time Travel

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• The biggest thing is to have a mind-set and a belief you can win every tournament going in.

  Tiger Woods

  Winning, Being Positive, Mind

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• Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Winning, Thinking, Chess

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• I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most grand slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win satellite tournaments here there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Important, World

  "Selling the sisters". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2005.

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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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• If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

  Tony Lema

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, One Sentence

  Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”

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• 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

  Dad, Army, Things In Life

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• Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

  Hollis Stacy

  Golf, Bumps, Economy

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• We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

  Mark Gottfried

  Basketball, Lying, Team

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• Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are staying with the stronger sides for 60 minutes, but not the full 80 because of it.

  Kieran Crowley

  Team, Focus, Consistency

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• When I was playing in a junior tournament one time, I missed a short putt and threw my putter into the trees. I went on to win the tournament and later, instead of my dad congratulating me, he told me that if I ever threw a club again, I'd never play in another golf tournament. I haven't thrown a club since.

  Arnold Palmer

  Dad, Golf, Winning

  "Interview: Arnold Palmer talks Bay Hill, Rory McIlroy and the Masters". Interview with Ryan Ballengee, sports.yahoo.com. March 28, 2015.

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• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  Venus Williams

  Eight, Years, Play

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• I don't go there thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can. I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Focus, Needs

  Source: wwd.com

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• As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

  Stan Wawrinka

  Home, Winning, Player

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• When your four biggest tournaments all operate relatively independently, and the ATP and WTA tour operate independently, and you have Davis Cup and Fed Cup that operate independently, it makes it a tough message.

  Jim Courier

  Four, Messages, Cups

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.

  Jim Courier

  Wise, Children, Spring

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• Miami awarded me with the teams Pitcher of the year as well as Rookie of the year. My career at Miami only got better from there, I went on the Cape Cod baseball league for 2 consecutive summers where I did well and also to help lead our Miami team to both MAC regular season and tournament champions in 2005. I finished my career at Miami holding a few conference records including career innings pitched and by getting drafted by the Florida Marlins in the 10th round.

  Graham Taylor

  Summer, Baseball, Team

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• Another riveting one was Sterling Sharpe - mainly because everyone told me he's horrible. Sterling was playing in a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, and I drove up to see him (and others). I approached cautiously, figured he'd blow me off, etc. But, instead, he was fantastic. I mean, gracious, down to earth, funny, terrific memory, pinpoint insights. Could not have enjoyed my time with Sterling sharpe any more than I did. And how many journalists have ever said that before?

  Jeff Pearlman

  Memories, Mean, Golf

  Source: lombardiave.com

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• Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish is to celebrate a big party all together.

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

  Party, People, Together

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

  Maurice Ashley

  Games, Interesting, People

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

  Michelle Wie

  Distance, Men, Play

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• I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.

  John Daly

  Winning, Care, Firsts

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• What I like to do is to try to win as many tournaments and as many majors as I can, and with him [Tiger Woods] in the field, it just gives it more credibility, whatever it is I am able to accomplish.

  Phil Mickelson

  Winning, Giving, Trying

  Interview with Craig Heatley, old.augusta.com. April 3, 2007.

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