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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• 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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• 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 have recall. I don't know why or how. I had a guy once who said he played against me in novice [league, for kids under nine], for the Detroit Lasers. And I said, "Oh yeah, we beat you in the tournament, 8-1 and I think I scored seven goals, and the goalie was left-handed." And he was, "Oh my God. I was the goalie!" .

  Wayne Gretzky

  Kids, Thinking, League

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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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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• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Moving, Agency

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Dedication, Cards

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• Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

  Miguel Najdorf

  Looks, Chess, Nursery

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• Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.

  David Bronstein

  Thinking, Play, Two

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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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• When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Home, Winning, Play

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• After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Tennis, Next, Etc

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• Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.

  Wade Clark Mackey

  Awards, Years, Play

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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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• Barbara [my wife] and I said a long time ago that if we were in a position to help somebody, it would be kids. So when we started the Memorial Tournament (in Columbus, OH), Nationwide Children's Hospital, which saved my daughter's life when she was less than a year old, was the beneficiary from day one.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Daughter, Children, Kids

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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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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• Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Play, Numbers

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• We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.

  Mamunul Islam

  Team, Thinking, Play

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• I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat. So what started out as a superstition grew into a tradition and an easy way for my family to find me at tournaments because I am the only one with cojones big enough to wear a pink hat.

  Karch Kiraly

  Color, Hats, Cojones

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• On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

  Zhang Xi

  Football, Wall, Weekend

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• The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.

  Paul Azinger

  Winning, Player, Events

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• My family vacations were softball tournaments.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Vacation, My Family

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• We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Winning, Games, Play

  "How Jurgen Klinsmann Plans to Make U.S. Soccer Better (and Less American)" by Sam Borden, www.nytimes.com. June 04, 2014.

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