Quotes about Tournament

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament. Votes: 4

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual. Votes: 3

National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana. Votes: 3

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me. Votes: 3

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life. Votes: 3

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved. Votes: 2

Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament. Votes: 2

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament. Votes: 2

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament. Votes: 2

I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions. Votes: 2

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change. Votes: 2

The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home. Votes: 2

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament. Votes: 2

The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format. Votes: 2

I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments, I'm not trying to build fitness. I'm simply trying to keep away any kind of tension. I go for long walks to clear my head. Votes: 2

By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind. Votes: 2

I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder. Votes: 2

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them. Votes: 2

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it. Votes: 2

Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun. Votes: 2

I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that. Votes: 2

I don't know of any other organization that's raised more money than golf has, because if you are a baseball player, you're a football player, you're a hockey player, if you're just a businessman, and you want to raise some money for a charity, what do they do? They have a golf tournament. They have a golf outing, and they go out and they do it. Votes: 2

I try to win every tournament. Votes: 0

I feel like I've won the tournament. Votes: 0

A chess tournament disguised as a circus. Votes: 0

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament! Votes: 0

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists. Votes: 0

I add status to any tournament I attend. Votes: 0

The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders. Votes: 0

This is a tournament. The others are all championships. Votes: 0

I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal. Votes: 0

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it. Votes: 0

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won. Votes: 0

I can't ever remember anyone winning a tournament like that. Votes: 0

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough. Votes: 0

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much. Votes: 0

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school. Votes: 0

Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play. Votes: 0

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well. Votes: 0

You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament, Votes: 0

It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no. Votes: 0

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf. Votes: 0

I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf. Votes: 0

To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying. Votes: 0

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. Votes: 0

You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament. Votes: 0

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal. Votes: 0

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play. Votes: 0

I want to win every single tournament because I know I can do it. Votes: 0

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament. Votes: 0

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient. Votes: 0

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient. Votes: 0

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day. Votes: 0

I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament. Votes: 0

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores. Votes: 0

Chris (Moneymaker) winning that tournament has made the rest of us a lot of money. Votes: 0

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament. Votes: 0

Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament. Votes: 0

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me Votes: 0

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me. Votes: 0

The biggest thing is to have a mind-set and a belief you can win every tournament going in. Votes: 0

There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them. Votes: 0

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess. Votes: 0

The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that. Votes: 0

Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament. Votes: 0

K-State is a dangerous team. Those are the kind of teams you don't want to see in the tournament. Votes: 0

The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year. Votes: 0

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all. Votes: 0

The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game. Votes: 0

Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best. Votes: 0

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading. Votes: 0

I'm a golf junkie. I watch every tournament pretty much. I watch interviews. I watch warm-up routines. All that stuff. Votes: 0

I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know. Votes: 0

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three. Votes: 0

Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament. Votes: 0

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches. Votes: 0

At the end of every tournament, to review every stroke and every hole, seeing what I can learn from the experience. Votes: 0

Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better. Votes: 0

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey. Votes: 0

I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one. Votes: 0

Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butter. Votes: 0

This is my first FIFA Women's World Cup . For me, to see how I have reacted to this tournament...I'm totally in. Votes: 0

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality. Votes: 0

If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up! Votes: 0

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation. Votes: 0

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won. Votes: 0

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible. Votes: 0

I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help. Votes: 0

I don't go thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion. Votes: 0

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over. Votes: 0

We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations. Votes: 0

When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose. Votes: 0

As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half Votes: 0

When you want to be a good player in next years worldcup you wanna be in good shape to appear strong at the tournament. Votes: 0

The tournament means so much to me as well as the things I do in Africa. I thought it could also work well together. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone? Votes: 0

Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position. Votes: 0

Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here. Votes: 0

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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". Votes: 0

Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought Votes: 0

I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now! Votes: 0

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation. Votes: 0

Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the image of plush corporate boxes would suggest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish is to celebrate a big party all together. Votes: 0

My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple weeks, especially when we go to the NCAA tournament and all the nice things come along with it. Votes: 0

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times. Votes: 0

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends. Votes: 0

I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know. Votes: 0

I don't know that I'll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate. I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five. Votes: 0

This is the shape I'm in for the tournament. I feel or I felt extremely good before the match, and I did train very, very hard to get ready for the tournament. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay. Votes: 0

It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually). Votes: 0

They've been a thorn in our side, but we're playing for more than just revenge. We're coming out and playing for the Big Ten tournament championship. If we beat them, that'll be great. Votes: 0

I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business. Votes: 0

I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own. Votes: 0

[Wayne Rooney ] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another. Votes: 0

When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option. Votes: 0

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'. Votes: 0