Tournaments Quotes · Page 6

I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.

— Joakim Noah

Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.

— Joe Tex

I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year as an amateur.

— Matt Kuchar

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

— Grantland Rice

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

— Tiger Woods

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

— David Duval

Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.

— Charlie Rose

It has sunk into my head that I want to be winning four or five tournaments a season.

— Judd Trump

It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That's not an issue. But I think that is the…

— Roger Federer

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I…

— Zach Johnson

Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish…

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes…

— Mikhail Tal

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never…

— Maria Sharapova

I love play in my country because now they have more tournaments. I feel every year I was travelling a lot. I…

— Peng Shuai

I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the…

— Greg Norman

The internal drive to win golf tournaments is really what drives me, and so the external factors are not as much of…

— Patrick Cantlay

There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati,…

— Jim Courier

Every team begins the year with the goal of going to the NCAA tournament. Until somebody takes that dream away, you pursue…

— Dan Monson

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time,…

— Yani Tseng

I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself…

— Camille Duvall

I try to enjoy what I do, and every moment of the life that I have is a blessing. What else can…

— Novak Djokovic

I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's…

— Chris Hardwick

I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always have new ideas for…

— Paula Creamer

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I…

— Tiger Woods

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...

— Jim Harrison

Queen's is one of my favourite tournaments of the year.

— Stan Wawrinka

Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

— David Bronstein

Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are…

— Kieran Crowley

The most I ever played was 12 or 13 tournaments. Now they're talking about almost 20, and it's all year round, playing…

— Stephen Hendry

To win a Grand Slam, you have to win seven matches in a row, and it's very different physically and mentally from…

— Petra Kvitova

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

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis…

— Richard Davies

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

— Alexander Alekhine

Winning is irrelevant when you’re 11 or 12 years old. It really is it. At youth tournaments, I look at the technical…

— Brad Friedel

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…

— Steffi Graf

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the…

— Hollis Stacy

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats…

— Viswanathan Anand

The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40…

— Phil Mickelson

I used to be jack the lad, I was out a lot, I was mainly waking up with hangovers at tournaments rather…

— Jimmy White

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first…

— Sloane Stephens