I just had to get on the golf course and play holes whether it was practice or tournaments. Just keep playing. There’s nothing else you can do.
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.
You go to tournaments to win and when you actually lift the prize, you feel tremendous pride and happiness.
My goal is to be competing to win tournaments that I’m playing instead of just content with making a quarter.
I’ve had a great time coaching teams in these various T20 tournaments but that involvement obviously only lasts for a finite period. I just felt I was too young to be doing what I was doing.
In 1971, big tournaments were very new to me. I just thought Wimbledon was one of the other tournaments.
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.
We know how hard it is to travel around and if the schedules are really tight for you, it means you’re doing really well because you’re not going home early from many events. When you go deep in tournaments, that’s the consequence you have to pay I suppose.
I always knew I could win tournaments in the U.K. but there was a question mark over whether I could deal with playing in China.
You don’t win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.
We don’t have that many tournaments so sponsorship from logos is another way of helping boost your income.
Hyper-aggressive poker works best in deep-stack tournaments.
I used to make it deep in poker tournaments without ever moving all-in because other players knew that when I raised it up, I had the goods.
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!
I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.
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.
I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams and all that.
When I started I was pretty well the only Aboriginal player who was playing tournaments.
I like to listen to Congolese music because when I was a kid with my father, he took me to play some tournaments in the car and always put on this music. I always fell asleep with this music so it’s good things that I remember.
In inter-state tournaments, they used to make fun of my gear. It didn’t bother me. I had my body and my biggest weapon was my mind.
Because we’re playing tournaments week in and week out I’d think to myself, ‘What’s the point in practising?’ You have no down time to yourself and you’re looking for some to spend with your family and friends. But I’ve now realised that with the game so cut-throat and standards going up every week, it doesn’t work.
On the independent circuit I’ve traveled the world, I’ve won championships, I’ve won tournaments – I’ve defeated some of the best out there so I feel like I am one of the best.
Germany are always among the favourites at major tournaments.
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.
I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.
I love my grandpa so much. I’ve just spent so many times with him on the golf course. He’s watched me play and win so many junior golf tournaments.
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.
Some weeks I play well and beat a bunch of players and do super-well in tournaments.
I was a very happy but quite solitary kid. I spent hours playing on my own, mainly with toy soldiers, and played entire World Cup football tournaments in the garden with commentary in my head.
I go to church in Argentina and I try to keep it up during the tournaments.
I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.
As an England fan, you want to be involved in the big tournaments, especially when they are playing in your home stadium.
Golf, tennis, I think we respect one another and the crowd. If you see golf tournaments, as well, on the side, no one’s yelling, no one’s talking. There’s a lot of quiet there before someone is hitting the swing or stroke. So is tennis. It’s a very respectful sport.
In Brazil, we believe a lot in skill. We think it will decide matches and tournaments. Sometimes we forget the tactical side.
Yeah, definitely on a mission now to compete to try to be winning these tournaments I’m playing.
You build yourself up for the big series, the big tournaments.
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.
I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.
Germany are a tournament team. I don’t know why that is, perhaps the mentality. We always look forward to tournaments. We also believe we can always perform well.
While there are many good courts in the country, we need to have good coaches for more players to come up. Not everyone can go to Gopichand Academy, and everyone cannot afford international tournaments.
I want to be remembered for as many tournaments as I can win and as many grand slams I can win.
If you’re not at the elite levels there are a lot more opportunities to play tournaments.
I want to talk about how great of a father I am. How I never miss any of my kids’ wrestling tournaments or big events like birthdays or holidays. I’m always there for anything to do with my kids.
I enjoy commentating on the big tournaments for the BBC, the occasional exhibition match, and my business interests.
Some tournaments are played in one day – you might start at nine o’clock in the morning and it won’t end till one o’clock the next morning.
It was natural for me to go to local tournaments with my mother and watch my brothers compete and sometimes be left with my mom at home while my dad would take my brothers away to different tournaments and competitions. So I started doing everything they did.
Before I was going into tournaments and just hoping I would win one match. But now I’ll go into tournaments expecting to do well and if I bring my best game I know I can win them and beat all the big players.
Some tournaments wouldn’t work as men’s and women’s event but others would.
It’s all about practice and more practice. Travel to tournaments, play in them, watch other players.
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.
It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.
Tournaments, traditionally, are kind of the way martial arts contests happen.
I certainly think it’s ironic that beach volleyball was first played in the 1930s in Santa Monica and tournaments of a high caliber have been happening in this country since the 1940s, and the FIVB, for many years, has ignored beach volleyball.
I think I will have a lot of chance for big tournaments, especially grand slams.
You can’t really force four tournaments a year.
Pressure comes from myself, because I expect a lot, but I am trying not to put so much pressure on tournaments and to be less emotional during matches.
Did I have a mis-spent youth? I suppose I did in that I left school early without any qualifications, having bunked off a few times for tournaments.
Obviously I want to win all the big tournaments – I would hate to look back and not have won them. I also think, for me, there’s something about reaching a certain level rather than getting a certain number of wins.
I would like to work 50 Masters Tournaments.
I’ve worked hard ever since I was that 18-year-old kid who travelled to South America and India to play small tournaments in the hope of cracking the top 200.
