Tournaments Quotes - Page 4

• I add status to any tournament I attend.

  Bobby Fischer

  Add, Chess

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• I am taking a risk with my claycourt schedule. It is pretty heavy from now up until Roland Garros. I am scheduled to have one week off before Paris. Playing here is not as tiring as competing abroad. I wanted to see this tournament happen and now that we have the event, I want to see it grow.

  Juan Carlos Ferrero

  Paris, Risk, Events

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• I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in direct competition with my brothers for anything, ever. Stephen and I and Billy and I are better at staying in touch with each other. Danny is married, he has a new baby and he is very peripatetic, he goes to golfing tournaments and charity things. He really travels a lot.

  Alec Baldwin

  Baby, Brother, Competition

  "Alec Baldwin: The Accidental Actor". MOVIELINE interview, movieline.com. May 1, 1994.

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• The Dies tournament is always hard. We look forward to it every year from a competitive level. This is one of the biggest highlights of our season. This tournament has excellent tradition.

  Don King

  Years, Looks, Levels

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• If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

  Phil Hellmuth

  Winning, Luck, Involved

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• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  Pat Summerall

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

  "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview With Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.

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• The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Heart, Germany, World

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• Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Race, Hang In There

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• If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

  Michel Patini

  Years, Two, Fifa

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• Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995

  Richard Krajicek

  Winning, Play, Looks

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• I try to enjoy what I do, and every moment of the life that I have is a blessing. What else can you do but to be happy and try to bring that joy to the other people around - especially in the tournaments. Everybody has bad days. I'm not always funny or laughing.

  Novak Djokovic

  Bad Day, Blessing, People

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• You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Priorities, Titles, Finals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

  Jimmy Connors

  Important, Titles, World

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• Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.

  Marat Safin

  Player, Cost, Earth

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• As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

  Stan Wawrinka

  Home, Winning, Player

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• Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament

  Monica Seles

  Christmas, Sports, Travel

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• We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses.

  Rajon Rondo

  Believe, Play, Effort

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• When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

  James Keller

  Perseverance, Women, Athlete

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• I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

  Richard Davies

  Retirement, Golf, Weekend

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• Every team begins the year with the goal of going to the NCAA tournament. Until somebody takes that dream away, you pursue it. The reality is, we're a long way off from being in the NCAA tournament. For us to do that is a pipe dream. But if we were to win our last four, we're 8-8 in the best conference in the country. We'd have an opportunity.

  Dan Monson

  Dream, Country, Team

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• I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

  David Ginola

  Soccer, Beach, Fun

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• It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

  Simon Kuper

  Soccer, Sports, Country

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• Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

  Retief Goosen

  Play, Important, Majors

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• Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

  Retief Goosen

  Winning, Fog, Guy

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• I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

  Retief Goosen

  Winning, Firsts, Six

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