Tournament Quotes

#1. I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

Yani Tseng

#2. 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.

Arnold Palmer

#3. It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy. The point that is really at issue remains untouched. Libel settles nothing ...

George Orwell

#4. You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.

Mike Weir

#5. The biggest thing is to have a mind-set and a belief you can win every tournament going in.

Tiger Woods

#6. I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now!

Andriy Shevchenko

#7. It's going to be intense. This is what we played the whole tournament for, we had to play an extra game but I think that's a good thing, we got some line combinations working together fairly well now.

Corey Perry

#8. I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

Phil Hellmuth

#10. If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

Bobby Fischer

#11. I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.

Serena Williams

#12. I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.

Viswanathan Anand

#13. Eddie sees the big picture. He's clearly got a vision of how to make this thing the big event. And he never stops working. The minute [the tournament] is completed, he'll be thinking about next year.

Susan Collins

#14. You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament,

Pau Gasol

#15. The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.

Stuart Appleby

#16. I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

Michael Chang

#17. The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.

Phil Mickelson

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

Vic Ziegel

#19. I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

Andy Murray

#20. During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Alexander Alekhine

#21. I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

David Ginola

#22. There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.

Mike Matusow

#23. As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#24. We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

Mark Gottfried

#25. Going to a major tournament, having that buzz - it's hard to put into words. It's a dream to go there, and to play. It's the biggest thing you can achieve in your career, and to go again would be a dream.

Jermain Defoe

#26. I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

Chris Hardwick

#27. Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

Amelie Mauresmo

#28. Life is like a basketball game, you can shoot but miss. sometimes you even lose a game. There is always a next tournament, but never a time to give up.

David Dunham

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

Retief Goosen

#30. The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

Alexander Kotov

#31. Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.

Mikhail Tal

#32. This is my first FIFA Women's World Cup . For me, to see how I have reacted to this tournament ... I'm totally in.

Alexi Lalas

#33. I feel like I've won the tournament.

Ben Crenshaw

#34. March is the perfect month for a wedding. Just make sure it's after the NCAA tournament. I think we'll go far this year. Go Big Blue!

Kathleen Brooks

#35. I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.

Chris Moneymaker

#36. We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

Tom Watson

#37. As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.

Barbara Bush

#38. I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.

Jack Nicklaus

#39. My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".

Serena Williams

#40. I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

Eric Dickerson

#41. One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.

Rabih Alameddine

#42. My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

Tiger Woods

#43. Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots. - On North Carolina missing 22 of its last 23 shots in losing to Georgetown in the NCAA tournament.

Charles Barkley

#44. But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

Andre Agassi

#45. I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.

Rajeev Shukla

#46. I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.

John Daly

#47. I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

Jack Nicklaus

#48. When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.

Steve-O

#49. I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.

Gene Littler

#50. We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

Darius Rucker

#51. It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

Serena Williams

#52. I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.

Raymond Floyd

#53. Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament we have, and being able to win it with all the tradition, that's always been a dream of mine.

Daniel Nestor

#54. By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I.

Tom Wolfe

#55. 'Freaky Friday' was really fun. They had a ping-pong table on set because Jamie Lee Curtis is really good at ping-pong. She's awesome at it. And they had a tournament, and we would play during filming. Whoever won the tournament would get to keep the table. I think it was Jamie who kept it.

Cayden Boyd

#56. The Dies tournament is always hard. We look forward to it every year from a competitive level. This is one of the biggest highlights of our season. This tournament has excellent tradition.

Don King

#57. At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.

Cheryl Hines

#58. I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

Phil Mickelson

#59. I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.

John Daly

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

Mikhail Botvinnik

#61. One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.

Sania Mirza

#62. There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

Tiger Woods

#63. I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Bobby Jones

#64. Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here.

Nikolay Davydenko

#65. Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are staying with the stronger sides for 60 minutes, but not the full 80 because of it.

Kieran Crowley

#66. The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.

Helen Wills Moody

#67. When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Yani Tseng

#68. The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

Franz Beckenbauer

#69. Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

Retief Goosen

#70. The sounds of gunfire didn't bother Winn any more. It just meant that this was the weekend, or a soccer tournament, or someone had a sale on ammunition.

Scott Rhine

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

Andre Agassi

#72. When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.'

Maria Sharapova

#73. One thing we did well the whole tournament was keep fighting. And no matter what happened the point before, missed opportunity, missed easy shot, we just played the next point and blocked it out of our mind. That's why we're the champs.

Daniel Nestor

#74. Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

Tiger Woods

#75. win the tournament, Harry knows that, don't

J.K. Rowling

#76. There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that.

Arnold Palmer

#77. Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.

Toney Penna

#78. Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

David Walker

#79. We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses.

Rajon Rondo

#80. Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.

Gary McCord

#81. National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.

Steve Simmons

#82. We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#83. I want to win every single tournament because I know I can do it.

Lorena Ochoa

#84. It is a tremendous honor to be a No. 2 seed, and to get to play so close to home in Dayton. It is an incredible feeling, and it will be interesting to start preparing. But right now we need some rest and then we'll get our guys going for the NCAA Tournament.

Thad Matta

#85. What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

Greg Norman

#86. I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

Jennifer Tilly

#87. Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.

Richard Krajicek

#88. To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the beginning then you can win games and build confidence. I think the key is just to get off to a good start.

Jermain Defoe

#89. I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Viswanathan Anand

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

Gene Littler

#91. We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.

Michel Patini

#92. When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.

Goran Ivanisevic

#93. Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.

Richard Krajicek

#94. We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.

Shane Warne

#95. Rafa being 6-1 against Roger is not a source of pride for me. I'm happy that Rafa won the tournament, but I would have liked that Federer could have won the Grand Slam, because I think he's a phenomenal player. For me, he is the player I enjoy watching the most.

Toni Nadal

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

Karrie Webb

#97. When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.

Viswanathan Anand

#98. I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

Tom Watson

#99. It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

Vijay Singh

#100. When you've done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you'll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.

Karch Kiraly