Tournaments Quotes - Page 12

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

  Phil Mickelson

  Fun, Hate, Play

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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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• The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

  Winston Churchill

  Team, Winning, Class

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• We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Sri Lanka, Finals, Three

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

  Helen Wills

  Player, Two, Competition

  HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”

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• 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).

  Jennifer Wyatt

  Running, Mind, Events

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• 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

  Games, Play, Goal

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• 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.

  Pele

  Games, Cups, Six

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• So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Winning, Games

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

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• 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

  Years, Goal, Would Be

  "Masters champion Bubba Watson returns to action with 'Bubba golf'" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• I used to not really like going to the gym when I was playing tournaments because I'd be sore and stiff. But the more you keep doing it, the less soreness you have. And you actually start to enjoy it.

  Rory McIlroy

  Used, Soreness, Enjoy

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• I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.

  Rory McIlroy

  Kids, People, Role Models

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• I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

  Curtis Joseph

  Running, Brother, Golf

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• 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.

  Michael Chang

  Attitude, Winning, Past

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• I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

  Michael Chang

  Thinking, Numbers, Trying

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• I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

  Eric Dickerson

  Golf, Talking, Years

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• 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

  Want, Wells, Knows

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• 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.

  David Duval

  Appreciation, Golf, Trying

  U.S. Open Interview (golf), 2010.usopen.com. June 22, 2009.

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• In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.

  Roy Clarke

  Country, Strong, Team

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• 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.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Winning, Interesting, Atmosphere

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• Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

  Martina Hingis

  Winning, Want

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• It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.

  Stefan Edberg

  Years, Two, Finals

  "Adieu to an elegant assassin: Stefan Edberg interview". Interview with John Roberts, www.independent.co.uk. June 23, 1996.

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• If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.

  Jennifer Shahade

  Women, Events, World

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• Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad.

  Jahangir

  Hard Work, Play, Effort

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