Tournaments Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Kings, Years

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• 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

  Support, Crowds, Miami

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• 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.

  Camilo Villegas

  Decision, Special, Finals

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

  Karrie Webb

  Golf, Winning, Games

  "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". www.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.

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• The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are.

  Geena Davis

  Sports, Football, Winning

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Eddie sees the big picture. He's clearly got a vision of how to make this thing the big event. And he never stops working. The minute [the tournament] is completed, he'll be thinking about next year.

  Susan Collins

  Thinking, Years, Vision

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• My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Softball, Sports

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• Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Men, Swings

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• 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

  Golf, Swings, Two

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• [Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

  Chris Evert

  Sports, Loss, Winning

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• I think it was good, we wanted to win no matter if it was 1-0 or 8-2, we got to win. The Russians are a great team, but so are we. So we've gotta prepare the way we can and play the way we can tomorrow. I think that every game, every practice together we've continue to get better. It's tough in these short tournaments you gotta bond quickly and you've gotta have good chemistry; so hopefully now we can build on that and keep going.

  Shea Weber

  Team, Hockey, Thinking

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• It's going to be intense. This is what we played the whole tournament for, we had to play an extra game but I think that's a good thing, we got some line combinations working together fairly well now.

  Corey Perry

  Hockey, Thinking, Games

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• 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

  Golf, Swim, Months

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• The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

  Alistair Cooke

  Party, Golf, Garden

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• You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Winning, Games

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

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Three, Championship

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• 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

  Basketball, Team, People

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• I was, like, a brown belt, which is pretty good. I entered a tournament once, and I punched the guy in the throat and got disqualified. I realized - I don't know if you're familiar with "Karate Kid," but the bad guys in that are called Cobra Kai, and they're, like, the evil karate guys. And then when I went to the tournament, I realized that's what we were; we were like the Cobra Kai of the Jewish karate community.

  Seth Rogen

  Kids, Evil, Community

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• 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.

  Peter Sagal

  Italian, Player, Two

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

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• 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

  Play, Able, Way

  Source: www.tennis-x.com

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

  Serena Williams

  Mean, Together, Wells

  Source: www.tennis-x.com

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• I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

  Serena Williams

  Movie, Past, Balance

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• [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.

  Michael Owen

  Impact, World, Cups

  Source: www.espnfc.com

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• 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.

  Stan Wawrinka

  Home, Winning, Player

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