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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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• We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

  Mark Gottfried

  Basketball, Lying, Team

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• Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

  Hollis Stacy

  Golf, Bumps, Economy

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• My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

  Alexandra Kosteniuk

  Dad, Army, Things In Life

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• If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

  Tony Lema

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, One Sentence

  Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”

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• I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Golf, Wonderful Friends

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Thinking

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• I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Play, Interesting, Delight

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• Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

  Sepp Blatter

  Winning, League, Effort

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• I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.

  Camille Duvall

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  Camille Duvall, Nancy Crowell (1992). “Camille Duvall's Instructional Guide to Water Skiing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

  Trent Dilfer

  Sports, Golf, Thinking

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• Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

  Jan Timman

  Games, Chess Game, Variation

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• Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are staying with the stronger sides for 60 minutes, but not the full 80 because of it.

  Kieran Crowley

  Team, Focus, Consistency

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• One thing we did well the whole tournament was keep fighting. And no matter what happened the point before, missed opportunity, missed easy shot, we just played the next point and blocked it out of our mind. That's why we're the champs.

  Daniel Nestor

  Fighting, Opportunity, Focus

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• There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.

  Jim Courier

  Wise, Children, Spring

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• When your four biggest tournaments all operate relatively independently, and the ATP and WTA tour operate independently, and you have Davis Cup and Fed Cup that operate independently, it makes it a tough message.

  Jim Courier

  Four, Messages, Cups

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• Winning is irrelevant when you’re 11 or 12 years old. It really is it. At youth tournaments, I look at the technical ability of the players. Whether the team wins or loses - I don’t care.

  Brad Friedel

  Team, Winning, Player

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• I'm a golf junkie. I watch every tournament pretty much. I watch interviews. I watch warm-up routines. All that stuff.

  Stephen Curry

  Golf, Watches, Stuff

  Source: wearegolf.org

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• At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Night, Jumping, Lunch

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• I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Daughter, Player, Years

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• My family vacations were softball tournaments.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Vacation, My Family

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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