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Tournaments Quotes By Chuck Klosterman

I also need to prepare myself for the inevitability of utter boredom: Very often, single people don't do shit. They do nothing, all night long. They sit in a recliner and watch TV. I've probably watched more television than anyone you've ever met, and I don't even own one. Terrible shows, good shows, Golf tournaments in Cancun. C-SPAN. Hours of Oprah. Law and Order. Lonely people love Law and Order, for whatever reason. They prefer the straight narratives. p60 — Chuck Klosterman

Tournaments Quotes By Ted Williams

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen. — Ted Williams

Tournaments Quotes By Miguel Najdorf

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies. — Miguel Najdorf

Tournaments Quotes By Alexandra Kosteniuk

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. — Alexandra Kosteniuk

Tournaments Quotes By Bobby Orr

The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today. — Bobby Orr

Tournaments Quotes By Jana Novotna

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

Tournaments Quotes By Dan Jenkins

There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it. — Dan Jenkins

Tournaments Quotes By Rory McIlroy

I used to not really like going to the gym when I was playing tournaments because I'd be sore and stiff. But the more you keep doing it, the less soreness you have. And you actually start to enjoy it. — Rory McIlroy

Tournaments Quotes By Maureen Connolly

Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments. — Maureen Connolly

Tournaments Quotes By Retief Goosen

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. — Retief Goosen

Tournaments Quotes By Rafael Nadal

The bad thing about the [tennis] calendar is how it is made and obligates you to play tournaments all year. If you want to achieve the most you can (and) go as high up (in the rankings) as you can, you have to play from the start to the finish because there are important tournaments from the beginning to the end. — Rafael Nadal

Tournaments Quotes By Stuart Appleby

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.' — Stuart Appleby

Tournaments Quotes By Ana Ivanovic

I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days. — Ana Ivanovic

Tournaments Quotes By Magnus Carlsen

I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros. — Magnus Carlsen

Tournaments Quotes By Simon Kuper

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies. — Simon Kuper

Tournaments Quotes By Robert Harris

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? — Robert Harris

Tournaments Quotes By Novak Djokovic

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop. — Novak Djokovic

Tournaments Quotes By Brad Friedel

Winning is irrelevant when you're 11 or 12 years old. It really is it. At youth tournaments, I look at the technical ability of the players. Whether the team wins or loses - I don't care. — Brad Friedel

Tournaments Quotes By Rafael Nadal

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

Tournaments Quotes By Roger Federer

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York. — Roger Federer

Tournaments Quotes By Paul Azinger

The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup. — Paul Azinger

Tournaments Quotes By Arnold Palmer

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

Tournaments Quotes By Drew Curtis

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments. — Drew Curtis

Tournaments Quotes By Tiger Woods

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at. — Tiger Woods

Tournaments Quotes By Phil Mickelson

I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!' — Phil Mickelson

Tournaments Quotes By Luis Suarez

My first season at Liverpool had good moments but also bad ones. We played three tournaments and we played two finals, and that was good. — Luis Suarez

Tournaments Quotes By David Duval

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. — David Duval

Tournaments Quotes By Thomas Boswell

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

Tournaments Quotes By Simon Kuper

The viewing figures we saw earlier in this book suggest that sport is the most important communal activity in many people's lives. Nearly a third of Americans watch the Super Bowl. However, European soccer is even more popular. In the Netherlands, possibly the European country that follows its national team most eagerly, three-quarters of the population watch Holland's biggest soccer games. In many European countries, World Cups may now be the greatest shared events of any kind. To cap it all, World Cups mostly take place in June, the peak month for suicides in the Northern Hemisphere. How many Exleys have been saved from jumping off apartment buildings by international soccer tournaments, the world's biggest sporting events? — Simon Kuper

Tournaments Quotes By Bobby Fischer

I add status to any tournament I attend. — Bobby Fischer

Tournaments Quotes By Zhang Xin

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. — Zhang Xin

Tournaments Quotes By Greg Norman

I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives. — Greg Norman

Tournaments Quotes By Cheryl Ladd

Golf has been such a gift in my life, and I've enjoyed it so much and enjoyed lots of wonderful times on the golf course with my husband first, and then I got to play in all these celebrity tournaments. I'm often the only female celebrity in the tournament, hence the term 'Token Chick.' So it's been such a great, great gift in my life. — Cheryl Ladd

Tournaments Quotes By Venus Williams

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty. — Venus Williams

Tournaments Quotes By Stefan Edberg

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1. — Stefan Edberg

Tournaments Quotes By Kim Clijsters

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, — Kim Clijsters

Tournaments Quotes By Wanderlust Pocket Guides

Ryogoku Kokugikan* Ryogoku, the largest sumo stadium in Japan with a capacity of 10,000 spectators, holds grand tournaments of basho in January, May and September. These magnificent 15-day long tournaments are filled with ceremonies and rituals that are as interesting as the wrestling matches themselves. The competition begins around 9am each day, with amateur matches, and progress in order of seniority as the day continues. — Wanderlust Pocket Guides

Tournaments Quotes By Dominika Cibulkova

Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court, but to have messages of support in between tournaments is really motivating. — Dominika Cibulkova

Tournaments Quotes By Josh Holloway

We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious. — Josh Holloway

Tournaments Quotes By Peter Benchley

There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway. — Peter Benchley

Tournaments Quotes By Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won. — Bobby Jones

Tournaments Quotes By Gabriela Sabatini

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

Tournaments Quotes By Bernhard Langer

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments. — Bernhard Langer

Tournaments Quotes By Andy Murray

I don't play any tournaments to come second best. — Andy Murray

Tournaments Quotes By Michelle Wie

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

Tournaments Quotes By Bill Paxton

There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television. — Bill Paxton

Tournaments Quotes By Tiffeny Milbrett

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. — Tiffeny Milbrett

Tournaments Quotes By Viswanathan Anand

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

Tournaments Quotes By Inbee Park

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

Tournaments Quotes By Viswanathan Anand

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself. — Viswanathan Anand

Tournaments Quotes By Stewart Cink

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. — Stewart Cink

Tournaments Quotes By Stuart Scott

I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it - his passion, the way that he plays. He's unique and different, and he inspired a lot of my passion. It's a sport you can't master. If you're an athlete, you can do almost anything, but golf is not like that. — Stuart Scott

Tournaments Quotes By Sachin Tendulkar

seems remarkable that I played in both, but I didn't think much of it at the time. These tournaments are acknowledged — Sachin Tendulkar

Tournaments Quotes By Roger Federer

For me, I'm in the driver's seat; I'm No. 1 in the world. I've won the last couple of meetings, and I've won the big tournaments lately. Whoever comes, I'll try to beat him. But it's almost up to me to decide who's my rival, isn't it? — Roger Federer

Tournaments Quotes By Charlie Rose

Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose. — Charlie Rose

Tournaments Quotes By Joe Tex

Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments. — Joe Tex

Tournaments Quotes By Sloane Stephens

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. — Sloane Stephens

Tournaments Quotes By Rory McIlroy

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality. — Rory McIlroy

Tournaments Quotes By Pete Sampras

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. — Pete Sampras

Tournaments Quotes By Barry Larkin

I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families. — Barry Larkin

Tournaments Quotes By Jack Nicklaus

This is a tournament. The others are all championships. — Jack Nicklaus

Tournaments Quotes By Louis Sachar

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. — Louis Sachar

Tournaments Quotes By Pau Gasol

You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament, — Pau Gasol

Tournaments Quotes By Rory McIlroy

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. — Rory McIlroy

Tournaments Quotes By Maria Sharapova

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

Tournaments Quotes By Lee Westwood

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

Tournaments Quotes By Rafael Nadal

My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts. — Rafael Nadal

Tournaments Quotes By Jared Leto

It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends. — Jared Leto

Tournaments Quotes By Jack Nicklaus

I think in my case winning fans came as a result of winning tournaments. Certainly, I didn't have too many supporters when I came on Tour. I didn't look like an athlete, I was overweight, had a crew cut, baggy clothes and on top of that I didn't smile much. I was very serious about my game, literally and figuratively the heavy. — Jack Nicklaus

Tournaments Quotes By Mike Matusow

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

Tournaments Quotes By Webb Simpson

I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better. — Webb Simpson

Tournaments Quotes By Alec Baldwin

I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in direct competition with my brothers for anything, ever. Stephen and I and Billy and I are better at staying in touch with each other. Danny is married, he has a new baby and he is very peripatetic, he goes to golfing tournaments and charity things. He really travels a lot. — Alec Baldwin

Tournaments Quotes By Billie Jean King

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well. — Billie Jean King

Tournaments Quotes By Shea Weber

I think it was good, we wanted to win no matter if it was 1-0 or 8-2, we got to win. The Russians are a great team, but so are we. So we've gotta prepare the way we can and play the way we can tomorrow. I think that every game, every practice together we've continue to get better. It's tough in these short tournaments you gotta bond quickly and you've gotta have good chemistry; so hopefully now we can build on that and keep going. — Shea Weber

Tournaments Quotes By Chris Moneymaker

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

Tournaments Quotes By Tom Watson

I didn't learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of 'em. — Tom Watson

Tournaments Quotes By Andy Roddick

If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don't know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day. — Andy Roddick

Tournaments Quotes By Richard Davies

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies

Tournaments Quotes By Jack Nicklaus

You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be. — Jack Nicklaus

Tournaments Quotes By Andre Agassi

Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure. — Andre Agassi

Tournaments Quotes By Chris Evert

Losses are always a relief. They take a burden off me, make me feel more normal. If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. If I lose I go back to the dressing room and I'm no better nor worse than anyone else. A loss gets me eager again. — Chris Evert

Tournaments Quotes By Joe Bowen

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. — Joe Bowen

Tournaments Quotes By Maria Sharapova

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself. — Maria Sharapova

Tournaments Quotes By Jim Harrison

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls ... — Jim Harrison

Tournaments Quotes By Eric Bristow

I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts. — Eric Bristow

Tournaments Quotes By Michael Ballack

But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately copying anything new. What is really important for every team is to be aware of its own capabilities and find a style which plays to one's own strengths. — Michael Ballack

Tournaments Quotes By Michael Chang

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. — Michael Chang

Tournaments Quotes By Joakim Noah

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

Tournaments Quotes By Hollis Stacy

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. — Hollis Stacy

Tournaments Quotes By Roger Federer

The problem is not the claycourt. The problem is, you know, rather something to do with the conditions on center court. Because I've played well on Suzanne Lenglen, on the other courts. But the Chatrier court is really, really big, and I just haven't had enough play on it. Maybe I come here next year and play a week on this court, if I can, if the French Federation lets me. We'll see. I've been playing well in other tournaments, in Davis Cup on clay. So for me it's not the surface, it's rather maybe the court. — Roger Federer

Tournaments Quotes By Zach Johnson

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy. — Zach Johnson

Tournaments Quotes By Franz Beckenbauer

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

Tournaments Quotes By Viswanathan Anand

Before a game, I avoid having a heavy meal so that I don't feel sleepy at the board. You eat to be healthy, and that generally takes care of everything. Also, you can't be too finicky, since at tournaments you tend to eat at restaurants here and there. But, as long as you're eating sensibly, it's all good. — Viswanathan Anand

Tournaments Quotes By Karch Kiraly

I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me. We started playing tournaments together when I was 11, in the lower ranking of beach volleyball in California. We weren't playing against kids; we played against grown men, so immediately, I had to raise my game to compete. — Karch Kiraly

Tournaments Quotes By Lucas Black

I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn't. — Lucas Black

Tournaments Quotes By Jennie Finch

My family vacations were softball tournaments. — Jennie Finch

Tournaments Quotes By Jordana Spiro

I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn't believe it. He thought, 'What have I created, a floozy?' But it worked! — Jordana Spiro

Tournaments Quotes By Maurice Ashley

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. — Maurice Ashley

Tournaments Quotes By Anatoly Karpov

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

Tournaments Quotes By John Connally

A chess tournament disguised as a circus. — John Connally