Tournaments Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Our World, Needs

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.

  Gary McCord

  Struggle, Years, Magic

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• You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament.

  Pau Gasol

  Games, Lasts, Knows

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• I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.

  Ray William Johnson

  Fighting, Two, Steel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.

  Andy Roddick

  Play, Waiting, Cards

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• When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

  Jim Evans

  Summer, Night, Umpires

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• It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Block, Suffering, Quitting

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• Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought

  Willard Fiske

  Mind, Battle, Woe

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• Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.

  Richard Attias

  Sports, Country, Games

  "Africa’s Olympic Potential" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Sacrifice, Way

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• Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Past, Player, Years

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• If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Champion, World, Want

  Chess Life Interview, 2003.

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• I love rainy and bad-weather days because this type of weather gives me a mental advantage, especially when I'm fishing in a tournament. When the weather is inclement, most fishermen start thinking of reasons why they can't catch bass. But, because I fish so often in bad weather, I'm thinking of all the reasons I can catch bass in bad weather conditions.

  Gary A. Klein

  Thinking, Fishing, Weather

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• I can't ever remember anyone winning a tournament like that.

  Gene Littler

  Winning, Remember, I Can

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• I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.

  Gene Littler

  Running, Hands, Glory

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• I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

  Bobby Jones

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• This is a tournament. The others are all championships.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Championship

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• The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.

  Phil Mickelson

  Golf, Winning, Games

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• I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.

  Tom Kite

  Golf, Silver, Medal

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• Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Firsts, Tough

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• It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

  Claudio Reyna

  Sports, Country, World

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

  Stuart Appleby

  Sports, Running, Conquer The World

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

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• It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

  Vijay Singh

  Sports, Play, Concern

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