Tournaments Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.

  Jens Lehmann

  Play, Insulting, Done

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• Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it.

  Steffi Graf

  Winning, Play, Want

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• Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

  Steffi Graf

  Wimbledon, Grass, Surface

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• I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Beach, Player, Shells

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• What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

  Greg Norman

  Sports, Winning, Winner

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.

  Vic Ziegel

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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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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• Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to

  Richard Krajicek

  Games, Tennis, Quality

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• But I have been hitting for a week now and trying to get back into some sort of routine because I need to play well at tournaments.

  Kim Clijsters

  Play, Trying, Routine

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• It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.

  Fred Hoyle

  Fun, Self, Ironic

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• Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Just Before Dark”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many years: I played tournaments in numerous countries with mixed results. I wrote and published a book - La Défense Alekhine and translated two others from Russian. I taught chess in schools; I earned more money through chess than through literature.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Country, Book, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

  Serena Williams

  Pain, Winning, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".

  Serena Williams

  Winning, Thinking, Next

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest of the tournament, and the player he bit turned Uruguayan.

  Peter Sagal

  Italian, Player, Two

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

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• I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

  Paul Banks

  School, House, Finishing

  "Paul Banks and RZA On Their Banks & Steelz Album, Wu-Tang, and Chess". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2016.

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• I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

  Muhammad Ali

  Running, Morning, School

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I was, like, a brown belt, which is pretty good. I entered a tournament once, and I punched the guy in the throat and got disqualified. I realized - I don't know if you're familiar with "Karate Kid," but the bad guys in that are called Cobra Kai, and they're, like, the evil karate guys. And then when I went to the tournament, I realized that's what we were; we were like the Cobra Kai of the Jewish karate community.

  Seth Rogen

  Kids, Evil, Community

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Golf, Long, Four

  "Lindsey Vonn: How to Be Fearless". Interview with Erin Bried, www.self.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Play, Trying

  Source: www.augusta.com

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