Tournaments Quotes - Page 6

• The tournament means so much to me as well as the things I do in Africa. I thought it could also work well together.

  Serena Williams

  Mean, Together, Wells

  Source: www.tennis-x.com

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• Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.

  Amy Poehler

  Monday, Brother, Wall

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• I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

  Barack Obama

  Grateful, Finals, Lasts

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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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• I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

  Marion Bartoli

  Years, Wimbledon, Magnificent

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• At the end of every tournament, to review every stroke and every hole, seeing what I can learn from the experience.

  Tiger Woods

  Holes, Ends, Reviews

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• The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are.

  Geena Davis

  Sports, Football, Winning

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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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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• My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Jobs, Team

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• When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?

  Frank Lampard

  Player, Squad, Looks

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• I don't wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It's something I don't care about.

  Steffi Graf

  Thinking, Wake Up, Care

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• I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

  Billie Jean King

  Team, Tennis, World

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• I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, Player, Schedules

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• There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Careers, Firsts

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• I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake.

  Maria Sharapova

  Sweet, Nice, Cake

  "SELF Talks to Tennis Star Maria Sharapova (She's got a sweet tooth!)". Interview with Bari Lieberman, www.self.com. August 30, 2011.

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• If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

  Maria Sharapova

  Hard Work, Mean, Tennis

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• Every single guy that I've caddied, even guys that I've caddied for just here and there over the years has won tournaments. There's no one I've caddied for that hasn't won tournaments. So I guess when I caddie for someone, it's kind of a reassurance thing that Steve knows what it takes to get it done.

  Steve Williams

  Years, Guy, Here And There

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

  Andre Agassi

  Thinking, Games, Choices

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Jan 14, 2015

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• If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do that. They only show the finals. That's always been the case. They don't want to give the time to the biggest tournament we have in the United States. Any other country, it's everywhere -- front page of the main paper, front page of the sports section. We haven't had that here.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Sports, Country, Australia

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• I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!'

  Phil Mickelson

  Orange, Fans, Firsts

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• But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

  Anatoly Karpov

  Success, Opponents, Chess

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• Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.

  Maureen Connolly

  Thinking, Tennis, Mind

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• I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

  Jana Novotna

  Play, Juniors

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• If tournament popularity was the most important consideration, then I think we would create a Smash Bros game that included a multitude of fast moves with complicated controls. However, I believe this is actually the greatest shortcoming of fighting games at present, and that is the reason why I don’t do it.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Believe, Moving, Fighting

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

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• The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Omission, Hands, Champion

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