Tournaments Quotes

After being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.

Id rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesnt sound too good.

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

Chris (Moneymaker) winning that tournament has made the rest of us a lot of money.

I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.

The media has dubbed me as someone who can only get up for the big tournaments, and that is not who I want to be.

I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.

Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

The most important thing to me is winning tournaments. I love winning.

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

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 care about.

My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.

My family vacations were softball tournaments.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.

A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

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

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

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 happy with that.

I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.

In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.

I can't ever remember anyone winning a tournament like that.

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

I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders.

There should be more of an off-season in the game. I think you need to have less tournaments, more of a break at the end of the year so guys can recover.

The worst part about the job is the travel, which takes you away from family and friends and important dates and hockey games and tournaments that your kids are in and things like that.

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.

But I have been hitting for a week now and trying to get back into some sort of routine because I need to play well at tournaments.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

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

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

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