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 don't go thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Do The Best, I Can

  Source: wwd.com

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• Staying interested in a match is a lot harder than many people think. Throughout my career, I've always had trouble in the early rounds of a tournament mainly because it was hard for me to psychologically get up until I got to the quarters or the semis. What happened a lot of times is that I would fall behind early, maybe even lose the first couple of sets in a five-set match and then begin to concentrate. Still it wasn't something I could control from the start.

  Rod Laver

  Couple, Fall, Thinking

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• I don't know that I'll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate. I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home.

  Andy Roddick

  Home, Guy, Needs

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• My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

  Rafael Nadal

  Winning, Games, Goal

  "Ask Rafa: send a question to Rafael Nadal". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. January 31, 2012.

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• A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Swings, Ideas

  The Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September, 1988.

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• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Winning, Tennis

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  Rafael Nadal

  Home, Golf, Fishing

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• I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Play, Balls

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• The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Home

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• It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

  Jared Leto

  Dog, Brother, Couple

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• 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.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Golf, Technology, Names

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• I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

  Novak Djokovic

  Communication, Player, Thinking

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• I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

  Roger Federer

  New York, Holiday, Paris

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• I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

  Roger Federer

  Sports, Way, Sometimes

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• I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

  Marat Safin

  Wish, Wells, Injured

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• 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.

  Yani Tseng

  Winning, Want, Easy

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• The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

  Yani Tseng

  Years, Firsts

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• I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

  Ivan Lendl

  Christmas, Travel, Weekend

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• I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

  Marat Safin

  Giving Up, Hate, Spending Time

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