Tournaments Quotes · Page 4

K-State is a dangerous team. Those are the kind of teams you don't want to see in the tournament.

— Kelvin Sampson

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

— Karrie Webb

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

— Charlie Rose

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

— David Bronstein

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

— Stan Wawrinka

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

— David Duval

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

— Grantland Rice

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

— Matt Kuchar

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to…

— Rory McIlroy

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

— Pal Benko

To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.

— Mats Wilander

When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got…

— Vic Ziegel

I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I…

— Ana Ivanovic

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up…

— Robert Harris

Our job as players is to show up to tournaments, put on a show for The R&A and for the Tour and…

— Xander Schauffele

My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able…

— Rafael Nadal

You can not say you're unhappy because you have to travel, have to play this tournament, having to play sports ... You…

— Novak Djokovic

We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style…

— Allan Ray

We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night…

— Mark Gottfried

All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure…

— Bent Larsen

I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments, I'm not trying…

— Viswanathan Anand

I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time,…

— Jordana Spiro

Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a…

— David Bronstein

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

— Ivan Lendl

The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders.

— Ivan Slavkov

Sometimes you go through a few tournaments without having a five-setter.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

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

— Sofia Kenin

If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

— Anatoly Karpov

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

— Joakim Noah

I had to get used to the TV tournaments and the big stages.

— Rob Cross

It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

— Franz Beckenbauer

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance

— Michelle Wie

I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

— Jana Novotna

Germany are always among the favourites at major tournaments.

— Andre Schurrle

Yeah, definitely on a mission now to compete to try to be winning these tournaments I'm playing.

— Jack Sock

You don't get the opportunity to win tournaments that often.

— Patrick Cantlay

I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams…

— Madison Keys

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

— Bryan Q. Miller

Being from Florida and playing so many tournaments on that beach in Fort Lauderdale, I just want to be on that beach…

— Brooke Sweat

There are big tournaments going on around the world, and some of them you cannot ignore because, financially, they make a huge…

— AB de Villiers