Tournament Quotes
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Tournament Quotes & Sayings
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You tried to kill me with your dagger," Valten said calmly. "I can get you disqualified from this tournament." "Are you threatening me?" "Yes.
— Melanie Dickerson
When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.
— Yani Tseng
This is my first FIFA Women's World Cup . For me, to see how I have reacted to this tournament ... I'm totally in.
— Alexi Lalas
A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
— John Connally
Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.
— Bubba Watson
I feel like I've won the tournament.
— Ben Crenshaw
Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament we have, and being able to win it with all the tradition, that's always been a dream of mine.
— Daniel Nestor
The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.
— Phil Mickelson
A girl who would never play in a tournament. She'd been butchered by agents of the Red Rose when they'd been unable to steal her away.
— Cinda Williams Chima
At the end of every tournament, to review every stroke and every hole, seeing what I can learn from the experience.
— Tiger Woods
One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.
— Sania Mirza
You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.
— Roger Federer
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.
— David Ginola
If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!
— Tony Lema
I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.
— Bobby Jones
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
Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.
— Daniela Hantuchova
I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.
— Serena Williams
Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.
— Dan Jenkins
There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.
— Mike Matusow
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
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
Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well.
— Andy Murray
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
One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.
— Rabih Alameddine
I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.
— Yani Tseng
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
That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.
— LeBron James
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.
— Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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
When you want to be a good player in next years worldcup you wanna be in good shape to appear strong at the tournament.
— Thomas Muller
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
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
I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.
— Jamie Farr
I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.
— Tom Kite
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
First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
— Karrie Webb
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
— Viktor Korchnoi
Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.
— Helen Wills Moody
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
Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.
— Retief Goosen
Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.
— David Walker
You know your Bible too well and life too little.
— Richard Llewellyn
win the tournament, Harry knows that, don't
— J.K. Rowling
At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.
— Cheryl Hines
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
— Boris Becker
It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.
— Serena Williams
This is a tournament. The others are all championships.
— Jack Nicklaus
I add status to any tournament I attend.
— Bobby Fischer
I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
— Chris Hardwick
I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.
— Allen Iverson
Maybe this wasn't a good idea. He didn't have time to fight an evil symbiot. He had a softball tournament on Sunday.
— Adam Graham
If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!
— Phil Hellmuth
I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.
— John Daly
I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.
— Gene Littler
Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.
— Toney Penna
The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders.
— Ivan Slavkov
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
To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.
— Lee Trevino
A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
— Thomas Boswell
I can't ever remember anyone winning a tournament like that.
— Gene Littler
K-State is a dangerous team. Those are the kind of teams you don't want to see in the tournament.
— Kelvin Sampson
If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.
— Michel Patini
Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.
— Steffi Graf
When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.
— Amelie Mauresmo
We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.
— Jurgen Klinsmann
When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.
— Joe Jamail
There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.
— Ray Floyd
Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.
— Gideon Haigh
Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butter.
— Charlie Sifford
My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.
— Bubba Watson
Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.
— Savielly Tartakower
We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.
— John O'Neill
When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.
— Jahangir Khan
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
— Marat Safin
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
Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.
— Wade Clark Mackey
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
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