Tournaments Quotes · Page 11

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got…

— Paul Banks

Rafa being 6-1 against Roger is not a source of pride for me. I'm happy that Rafa won the tournament, but I…

— Toni Nadal

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out…

— Jack Nicklaus

At a certain point in the [golf] tournament, it becomes a match play event and becomes a match play event against who…

— Jack Nicklaus

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you…

— Jack Nicklaus

I didn't learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments,…

— Tom Watson

Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court,…

— Dominika Cibulkova

Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too…

— Andy Roddick

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.

— Boris Spassky

Of course, I want to play for England as often as I can and at major tournaments.

— Jack Butland

Obviously, I want to do well in all tournaments, but if I had to pick, for sure Paris.

— Sofia Kenin

There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some…

— Arnold Palmer

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October…

— Ivan Lendl

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

— Pal Benko

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could…

— Rebecca West

I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most grand slams and be remembered in this world.…

— Venus Williams

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My…

— Juan Manuel Marquez

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…

— David Duval

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

— Mikhail Botvinnik

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

— Marat Safin

I never say I don't like the U.S. I say I don't want to play 15 tournaments in the U.S.

— Seve Ballesteros

We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game…

— Jurgen Klinsmann

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

— Andy Murray

I've won the U.S. Championship. I've won a lot of tournaments.

— Hikaru Nakamura

The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time.…

— Bobby Orr