Tournament Quotes
- Page 2You 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
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
Marat Safin
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
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
So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.
Greg Norman
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
You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.
Sean Connery
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
Boris Becker
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
Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.
Daniela Hantuchova
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
The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.
Stuart Appleby
When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.
Jim Evans
I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.
Goran Ivanisevic
I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.
Mike Peters
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
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.
David Ginola
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
If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.
Maria Sharapova
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
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
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
First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
Karrie Webb