Tournament Quotes

#1. The training area was set up where the tournament would actually be held, since putting together two structures to serve the same purpose would be at the level of idiotic redundancy reserved for the highest halls of government.

Drew Hayes

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

Martina Hingis

#3. Never thought I'd live ter see the Triwizard Tournament played again!

J.K. Rowling

#4. 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

#5. I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

Curtis Joseph

#6. If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

Rebecca West

#7. Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

Gideon Haigh

#8. I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

Tom Lehman

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

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#10. Ingra had already planned a trip for Agres and Mitra they had to go Area III, Supre and according to Ingra there they would find Gila's sister, Mila Opta and that was about it from him because aparently Ingra had some things to sort out before the next tournament began.

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#11. I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

Terry Bradshaw

#12. I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.

Rory McIlroy

#13. This is the shape I'm in for the tournament. I feel or I felt extremely good before the match, and I did train very, very hard to get ready for the tournament.

Andy Murray

#14. People look at me weird because I'm a Howard Stern fan, but he's very misunderstood. It's the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament - just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.

Keegan Bradley

#15. We spilled onto the court to celebrate, but most of the guys were confused about how excited they were supposed to be. I mean, sure we won the tournament, but at the end of the day it was the NIT and being the best team in the NIT is like being the most attractive Michigan cheerleader.

Mark Titus

#16. 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

#17. Kenzie took two staggering steps backward, staring at the feeline as if in a daze. "O-kay," she breathed, shaking her head slightly. "A cat. A cat that talks. I'm going crazy." she glanced at me. " Or you slipped something into my drink at the tournament. One or the other.

Julie Kagawa

#18. I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

Yani Tseng

#19. I can tell you what the eye wanted with Sophie ... we heard she was particularly skilled qt Chutes and Ladders, and since The Eye holds a Chutes and Ladders tournament every summer

Rachel Hawkins

#20. If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

Agnieszka Radwanska

#21. In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.

Bill Vaughan

#22. Maybe this wasn't a good idea. He didn't have time to fight an evil symbiot. He had a softball tournament on Sunday.

Adam Graham

#23. I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.

David Duval

#24. I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

Marat Safin

#25. Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.

Savielly Tartakower

#26. Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

Bill Cosby

#27. The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

Tiger Woods

#28. If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

Michel Patini

#29. I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone to beat me.

Serena Williams

#30. [Wayne Rooney ] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.

Michael Owen

#31. A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

John Connally

#32. The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year.

Guan Tianlang

#33. At a certain point in the [golf] tournament, it becomes a match play event and becomes a match play event against who is on the leaderboard, so you have to know who is there to do what you're going to try to do.

Jack Nicklaus

#34. Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.

Zinedine Zidane

#35. I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

Trent Dilfer

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

Greg Raymer

#37. This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them.

Mario Lemieux

#38. Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Viktor Korchnoi

#39. I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.

Allen Iverson

#40. You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.

Lleyton Hewitt

#41. I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.

Greg Norman

#42. When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

Amelie Mauresmo

#43. When you want to be a good player in next years worldcup you wanna be in good shape to appear strong at the tournament.

Thomas Muller

#44. But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

Al Alvarez

#45. The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

Alistair Cooke

#46. I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

Barack Obama

#47. You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

Rio Ferdinand

#48. In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

Viswanathan Anand

#49. I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

Garry Kasparov

#50. Probably. Definitely. I love to play finals. I love to play on the big stadiums. This is something really special. It doesn't feel like just a normal tournament for me - it's something more, more, more.

Petra Kvitova

#51. Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

Imran Khan

#52. Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

David Bronstein

#53. When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?

Frank Lampard

#54. We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.

John O'Neill

#55. It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

Claudio Reyna

#56. Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

Monica Seles

#57. I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

Larry Holmes

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

John McEnroe

#59. Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butter.

Charlie Sifford

#60. Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

Tom Felton

#61. In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.

Franz Beckenbauer

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

Grantland Rice

#63. Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

Magnus Carlsen

#64. I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.

Andre Ward

#65. Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.

Daniela Hantuchova

#66. Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

Bubba Watson

#67. That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.

Patrick Kane

#68. Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the image of plush corporate boxes would suggest.

Rory Bremner

#69. Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought

Willard Fiske

#70. Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

Sepp Blatter

#71. I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

Webb Simpson

#72. My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.

Bubba Watson

#73. I add status to any tournament I attend.

Bobby Fischer

#74. You can not say you're unhappy because you have to travel, have to play this tournament, having to play sports ... You can't because you chose to play it and you love it. I'm tremendously grateful for the support I have received from my family and the close ones.

Novak Djokovic

#75. They've been a thorn in our side, but we're playing for more than just revenge. We're coming out and playing for the Big Ten tournament championship. If we beat them, that'll be great.

Shannon Brown

#76. When I'm frustrated that I'm not doing well in a tournament I cut my own hair, just lop it all off. I've probably made a right mess of it, but luckily I wear a cap when I play.

Andy Murray

#77. The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

Pele

#78. Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.

Dan Jenkins

#79. After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

Goran Ivanisevic

#80. I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

Tiger Woods

#81. Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

Jan Timman

#82. This is a tournament. The others are all championships.

Jack Nicklaus

#83. I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments, I'm not trying to build fitness. I'm simply trying to keep away any kind of tension. I go for long walks to clear my head.

Viswanathan Anand

#84. I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

Camilo Villegas

#85. Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule ... I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker.

Serena Williams

#86. I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.

Ray William Johnson

#87. I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

Jamie Farr

#88. During a tournament, I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I'm in scoring mode.

Ernie Els

#89. I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

Rafael Nadal

#90. I am taking a risk with my claycourt schedule. It is pretty heavy from now up until Roland Garros. I am scheduled to have one week off before Paris. Playing here is not as tiring as competing abroad. I wanted to see this tournament happen and now that we have the event, I want to see it grow.

Juan Carlos Ferrero

#91. I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

Jimmy Connors

#92. I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

Jack Nicklaus

#93. Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it.

Steffi Graf

#94. To Bettina, she'd written: The old Vrekener king was a vicious fiend who got what he deserved. Kudos to your new vamp husband for a well-played assassination and tournament victory.

Kresley Cole

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

Thomas Boswell

#96. I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

Tim Buckley

#97. Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

Lindsey Vonn

#98. There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people.

Tom Hardy

#99. At Peter's court, the tournament of power would be still more vicious. The prizes were glittering, the ascent vertiginous, the descent sudden and the end often lethal.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#100. A girl who would never play in a tournament. She'd been butchered by agents of the Red Rose when they'd been unable to steal her away.

Cinda Williams Chima