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“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.”

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Author:Steve Simmons

“I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.”

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Author:Boris Spassky

“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.”

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Author:Louis Sachar

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

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Author:Allen Iverson

“I feel like I've won the tournament.”

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Author:Ben Crenshaw

“I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.”

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Author:Juan Manuel Marquez

“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.”

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Author:Yani Tseng

“Unlike most youngsters who have school as their second home where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.”

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Author:Saina Nehwal

“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.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.”

“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.”

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Author:Chris Evert

“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.”

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Author:John Daly

“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.”

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Author:Toni Nadal

“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.”

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Author:Marion Bartoli

“At the end of every tournament, to review every stroke and every hole, seeing what I can learn from the experience.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

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

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Author:Alexi Lalas

“A chess tournament disguised as a circus.”

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Author:John Connally

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

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Author:David Walker

“One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.”

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Author:Ari Fleischer

“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.”

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Author:Jermain Defoe

“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.”

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Author:Jermain Defoe

“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.”

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Author:Michael Ballack

“It's difficult to relax on tournaments, even in posh hotels, because you don't know how long you will be there - whether you'll lose a match on the first day and leave or whether you'll stay for longer.”

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Author:Andy Murray

“I'd like to say that I am romantic person, but I don't think I am. When I won my first tournament I went into the crowd and kissed my girlfriend. I was 18 and didn't have my coach with me, I was there on my own, and I just needed to celebrate with someone I knew. I always start out with good intentions. I'll say something nice, then I'll just put my foot in it and ruin the moment.”

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Author:Andy Murray

“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.”

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Author:Andy Murray

“I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.”

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Author:Charlie Rose

“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.”

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Author:Rafael Nadal

“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.”

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Author:Magnus Carlsen

“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.”

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Author:Joe Bowen

“I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.”

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Author:Ted Williams

“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.”

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Author:Barbara Bush

“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.”

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Author:Jim Evans

“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.”

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Author:Cheryl Hines

“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“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.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.”

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Author:Bubba Watson

“My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.”

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Author:Mike Bryan

“I was worried a bit at the beginning because I didn't know how the situation was. Once the ATP wanted to do the tournament, I realised there was no risk at all. I'm very sorry about what happened. It's not easy to be here knowing so many people were killed very near from here.”

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Author:Carlos Moya

“You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun.”

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Author:Lee Trevino

“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.”

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Author:Stewart Cink

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

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

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Author:Tiger Woods

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

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Author:John Daly

“What I like to do is to try to win as many tournaments and as many majors as I can, and with him [Tiger Woods] in the field, it just gives it more credibility, whatever it is I am able to accomplish.”

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Author:Phil Mickelson

“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.'”

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Author:Maria Sharapova

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