Tournaments Quotes · Page 2

For me, I relish playing tournaments in America.

— John Isner

This is what you work for: to win tournaments.

— Jessica Pegula

I feel like I've won the tournament.

— Ben Crenshaw

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

— Boris Spassky

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

— Johanna Konta

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

— John Connally

My family vacations were softball tournaments.

— Jennie Finch

I'm entering tournaments every week trying to win.

— Jack Sock

I think to give everything I have on court is the best thing to do to win tournaments.

— Simona Halep

Some tournaments wouldn't work as men's and women's event but others would.

— Mats Wilander

There are lot of tournaments and it's hard when you have a young family.

— Neil Robertson

It's a plus to have a twin sister in the same tournaments.

— Karolina Pliskova

Winning tournaments: that's the only thing that counts to me.

— Michael van Gerwen

All the tournaments I enter I want to win, but especially in one of the biggest arenas we play in.

— Judd Trump

We want to be the best in the world. If you want to win tournaments you've got to become that sort of…

— James Ward-Prowse

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

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

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

— Ray Floyd

If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

— Tony Lema

To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the…

— Jermain Defoe

[Wayne Rooney] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it…

— Michael Owen

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

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

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

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

— Paula Creamer

Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost…

— Marat Safin

I had a bunch of different colored hats I wore. When I started wearing a pink one, we won five or six…

— Karch Kiraly

I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in…

— Alec Baldwin

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

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

— Bent Larsen

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

— Mark Gottfried

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

— Bobby Jones

You can't really force four tournaments a year.

— Tommy Fleetwood

Everyone dreams of playing March Madness and playing in those tournaments, big-time games.

— Kevin Knox

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

— Lee Westwood

I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I enter tournaments now knowing that I can go on a run and there's no reason why it can't happen.

— Christopher Eubanks

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

— Miguel Najdorf

Traveling so much to tournaments, you get behind in school work.

— Jack Sock