Tournaments Quotes - Page 2

• I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

  Venus Williams

  Friends, Sports, Party

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• I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

  Serena Williams

  Movie, Past, Balance

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• If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Chess Game, Playing Chess

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• I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn't have her own show.

  Stephen Colbert

  School, Safety, Criticism

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• I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

  Ivan Lendl

  Christmas, Travel, Weekend

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• There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Three, Championship

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• You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Winning, Games

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• [Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

  Roger Federer

  Sports, Way, Sometimes

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• I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

  Roger Federer

  New York, Holiday, Paris

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• I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

  Novak Djokovic

  Communication, Player, Thinking

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• You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

  Sean Connery

  Golf, Oscars, Honest

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• I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Golf, Technology, Names

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• It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

  Jared Leto

  Dog, Brother, Couple

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• I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Home

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• I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.

  Rafael Nadal

  Support, Crowds, Miami

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• I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

  Marat Safin

  Wish, Wells, Injured

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• I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

  Marat Safin

  Giving Up, Hate, Spending Time

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• I don't know that I'll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate. I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home.

  Andy Roddick

  Home, Guy, Needs

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• The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Play, Balls

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• A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Swings, Ideas

  The Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September, 1988.

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• My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

  Rafael Nadal

  Winning, Games, Goal

  "Ask Rafa: send a question to Rafael Nadal". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. January 31, 2012.

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• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Winning, Tennis

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  Rafael Nadal

  Home, Golf, Fishing

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