Tournaments Quotes

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

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Want, Wells

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• I just travel all the time.

  Ivan Lendl

  Travel, Schedules, Time Travel

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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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• Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad.

  Jahangir

  Hard Work, Play, Effort

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• The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Omission, Hands, Champion

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• If tournament popularity was the most important consideration, then I think we would create a Smash Bros game that included a multitude of fast moves with complicated controls. However, I believe this is actually the greatest shortcoming of fighting games at present, and that is the reason why I don’t do it.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Believe, Moving, Fighting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

  Jana Novotna

  Play, Juniors

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• Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.

  Maureen Connolly

  Thinking, Tennis, Mind

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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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• But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

  Anatoly Karpov

  Success, Opponents, Chess

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• Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Winning, Chess

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• The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.

  Stuart Appleby

  Sports, Important, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Beast, Strategy

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• I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Champion

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• I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.

  Ray Floyd

  Monday, Golf, Practice

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• Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Games, Chess

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• My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple weeks, especially when we go to the NCAA tournament and all the nice things come along with it.

  Gregg Marshall

  Couple, Nice, Thinking

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• Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

  Lee Westwood

  Giving Up, Benefits, Littles

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• You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.

  Mike Weir

  Winning, Nine, Six

  Interview with Claude Nielson, old.augusta.com. April 5, 2005.

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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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• 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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