Tournaments Quotes - Page 15

• After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Tennis, Next, Etc

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• 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

  Winning, Games, Play

  "How Jurgen Klinsmann Plans to Make U.S. Soccer Better (and Less American)" by Sam Borden, www.nytimes.com. June 04, 2014.

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• My family vacations were softball tournaments.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Vacation, My Family

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• 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 Xi

  Football, Wall, Weekend

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• I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat. So what started out as a superstition grew into a tradition and an easy way for my family to find me at tournaments because I am the only one with cojones big enough to wear a pink hat.

  Karch Kiraly

  Color, Hats, Cojones

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• We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.

  Mamunul Islam

  Team, Thinking, Play

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• Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

  Miguel Najdorf

  Looks, Chess, Nursery

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

  Wade Clark Mackey

  Awards, Years, Play

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• Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.

  David Bronstein

  Thinking, Play, Two

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• When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Home, Winning, Play

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• Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Play, Numbers

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• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Moving, Agency

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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