Tournaments Quotes - Page 4

• 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 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 was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.

  Chris Hardwick

  Growing Up, Memories, School

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

  Andy Murray

  Years, Play, Realised

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

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• I don't have to get myself pumped up or calm myself down. As we get into the later rounds of a tournament and there is more at stake, I have even more adrenaline. If we make the finals, it's just an extra opportunity to win a tournament at my age. That doesn't come along that often.

  Karch Kiraly

  Winning, Opportunity, Age

  Source: www.stack.com

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• I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me. We started playing tournaments together when I was 11, in the lower ranking of beach volleyball in California. We weren't playing against kids; we played against grown men, so immediately, I had to raise my game to compete.

  Karch Kiraly

  Sports, Volleyball, Beach

  Source: www.stack.com

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• I had a bunch of different colored hats I wore. When I started wearing a pink one, we won five or six tournaments in a row, so I stuck with it. It started as superstition and now it's tradition—my hideous trademark that I always wear.

  Karch Kiraly

  Superstitions, Hats, Six

  Source: www.stack.com

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• I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

  Yani Tseng

  Success, Mean, Winning

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• It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.

  Yani Tseng

  Winning, Want, Easy

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• The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

  Yani Tseng

  Years, Firsts

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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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• I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.

  Devon Alexander

  Hate, I Hate, Loses

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I don't go there thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can. I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Focus, Needs

  Source: wwd.com

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• Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

  Tom Felton

  New York, Couple, Rivers

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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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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• 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 don't play any tournaments to come second best.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Winning, Play

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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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• Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Games, Play

  Source: www.golf.com

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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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