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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Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament

Monica Seles

Christmas, Sports, Travel

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Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

Lindsey Vonn

Golf, Long, Four

"Lindsey Vonn: How to Be Fearless". Interview with Erin Bried, www.self.com. February 20, 2014.

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Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.

Marat Safin

Player, Cost, Earth

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I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

Jimmy Connors

Important, Titles, World

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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.

Lleyton Hewitt

Priorities, Titles, Finals

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses.

Rajon Rondo

Believe, Play, Effort

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When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

James Keller

Perseverance, Women, Athlete

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I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

Richard Davies

Retirement, Golf, Weekend

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Every team begins the year with the goal of going to the NCAA tournament. Until somebody takes that dream away, you pursue it. The reality is, we're a long way off from being in the NCAA tournament. For us to do that is a pipe dream. But if we were to win our last four, we're 8-8 in the best conference in the country. We'd have an opportunity.

Dan Monson

Dream, Country, Team

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I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

David Ginola

Soccer, Beach, Fun

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It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

Simon Kuper

Soccer, Sports, Country

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Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

Retief Goosen

Play, Important, Majors

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Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

Retief Goosen

Winning, Fog, Guy

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I try to enjoy what I do, and every moment of the life that I have is a blessing. What else can you do but to be happy and try to bring that joy to the other people around - especially in the tournaments. Everybody has bad days. I'm not always funny or laughing.

Novak Djokovic

Bad Day, Blessing, People

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Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.

Amy Poehler

Monday, Brother, Wall

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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.

Sloane Stephens

Media, Want, Get Up

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We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.

Josh Holloway

Funny, Softball, Hawaii

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They've been a thorn in our side, but we're playing for more than just revenge. We're coming out and playing for the Big Ten tournament championship. If we beat them, that'll be great.

Shannon Brown

Revenge, Sides, Championship

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