Tournaments Quotes
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Tournaments Quotes & Sayings
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When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.
— Annika Sorenstam
There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
— Bill Paxton
A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
— John Connally
I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
— Bernhard Langer
In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.
— Gabriela Sabatini
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
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
I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn't.
— Lucas Black
I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days.
— Ana Ivanovic
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
I feel like I've won the tournament.
— Ben Crenshaw
I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.
— Joakim Noah
Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.
— Lee Westwood
The media has dubbed me as someone who can only get up for the big tournaments, and that is not who I want to be.
— Sloane Stephens
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
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
I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.
— Bobby Jones
I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
— Juan Manuel Marquez
I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
— Venus Williams
There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.
— Dan Jenkins
My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.
— Mike Bryan
There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.
— Mike Matusow
I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.
— Arnold Palmer
On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
— Zhang Xin
To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance.
— Michelle Wie
I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
— Marat Safin
The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders.
— Ivan Slavkov
My family vacations were softball tournaments.
— Jennie Finch
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.
— David Bronstein
Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.
— Miguel Najdorf
I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
— Roger Federer
I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.
— Inbee Park
A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
— Thomas Boswell
I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.
— Boris Spassky
Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.
— Pal Benko
If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
— Anatoly Karpov
We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.
— Josh Holloway
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
Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
— Zach Johnson
I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.
— Rafael Nadal
This is a tournament. The others are all championships.
— Jack Nicklaus
It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments
— Franz Beckenbauer
I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.
— Ted Williams
seems remarkable that I played in both, but I didn't think much of it at the time. These tournaments are acknowledged
— Sachin Tendulkar
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
My first season at Liverpool had good moments but also bad ones. We played three tournaments and we played two finals, and that was good.
— Luis Suarez
I don't play any tournaments to come second best.
— Andy Murray
I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.
— David Duval
Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
— Pele
Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.
— Joe Tex
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
If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
— Chris Evert
We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'
— Stuart Appleby
My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.
— Stewart Cink
Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.
— Hollis Stacy
It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.
— David Duval
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
— Lee Westwood
Some children at one of his tournaments in Burgundy had taken to calling him "Goliath". Not the most endearing biblical character.
— Melanie Dickerson
I add status to any tournament I attend.
— Bobby Fischer