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“The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during the game, and you could order anything you wanted to drink (even some vodka, if you liked). Pity, there are no longer tournaments organized in this manner.”

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Author:Boris Spassky

“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.”

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Author:Alexander Kotov

“All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.”

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Author:Bent Larsen

“The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders.”

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Author:Ivan Slavkov

“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.”

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Author:Webb Simpson

“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.”

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Author:Novak Djokovic

“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.”

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Author:Brad Friedel

“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.”

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Author:Jurgen Klinsmann

“My family vacations were softball tournaments.”

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Author:Jennie Finch

“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.”

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Author:Paul Azinger

“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.”

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Author:Zhang Xi

“I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat. So what started out as a superstition grew into a tradition and an easy way for my family to find me at tournaments because I am the only one with cojones big enough to wear a pink hat.”

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Author:Karch Kiraly

“We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.”

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Author:Mamunul Islam

“Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.”

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Author:Pal Benko

“Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.”

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Author:David Bronstein

“As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.”

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Author:Bjorn Borg

“A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.”

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Author:Oliver Kahn

“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.”

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Author:David Bronstein

“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.”

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Author:Ray Floyd

“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.”

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Author:Andre Ward

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

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Author:Alexander Alekhine

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

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Author:Stuart Appleby

“I just travel all the time.”

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Author:Ivan Lendl

“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.”

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Author:Magnus Carlsen

“But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!”

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Author:Anatoly Karpov

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

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Author:Karch Kiraly

“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.”

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Author:Maureen Connolly

“I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.”

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Author:Jana Novotna

“If tournament popularity was the most important consideration, then I think we would create a Smash Bros game that included a multitude of fast moves with complicated controls. However, I believe this is actually the greatest shortcoming of fighting games at present, and that is the reason why I don’t do it.”

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Author:Masahiro Sakurai

“The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.”

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Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad.”

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Author:Jahangir

“My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple weeks, especially when we go to the NCAA tournament and all the nice things come along with it.”

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Author:Gregg Marshall

“If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.”

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Author:Jennifer Shahade

“It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).”

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Author:Jennifer Wyatt

“We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.”

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Author:Kumar Sangakkara

“The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“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!'”

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Author:Phil Mickelson

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

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Author:Phil Mickelson

“The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40 yards. Ballstriking is where I'm trying to improve, yes, but more to eliminate big numbers than make birdies.”

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Author:Phil Mickelson

“Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.”

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Author:Joe Tex

“I try to win every tournament.”

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Author:Karrie Webb

“I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.”

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Author:Greg Norman

“Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.”

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Author:Greg Norman

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

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Author:Roger Federer

“I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.”

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Author:Roger Federer

“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.”

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Author:Tom Felton

“I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.”

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Author:Mahendra Singh Dhoni

“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.”

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Author:Andre Agassi

“To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.”

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Author:John McEnroe

“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.”

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Author:Greg Norman

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