Top 200 Tournament Quotes

I don’t think, when you are involved with England, you can ever write any game or tournament off – that wouldn’t be acceptable.

Joe Perry is always a big hurdle, he’s always there in the later stages of a tournament. You have to be playing well to beat him, and if you do that you know you have a chance of winning the title.

In tournaments, players typically raise when they enter the pot. In cash games, though, players are more likely to limp in before the flop. That’s because cash games are usually deeper-stacked, meaning that players will have a higher ratio of chips in relation to the blinds than they would in a tournament.

I’m usually out there grinding. You see a birdie go up on the board, and you’re not thinking about how it affects the tournament because you’re playing.

Very few players want to go home wondering if they’ve folded the best hand. They feel humiliated when they’re bluffed out of a pot. As a result, these players make calls with marginal hands that put their entire tournament at risk.

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it’s just a great month of parading.

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

I remember how I, too, was part of the Azlan Shah tournament for the first time in 2005. After that, I went to the Junior World Cup. I remember how much I benefited from the exposure.

As a kid everyone has dreams of winning their ultimate tournament and being number one in the world.

I’ve experienced tournament wins with younger age groups and I know how good it feels – it’s about carrying on.

I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can’t wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.

You cannot just play tournament after tournament like maybe I did when I was 23, 24 years old.

You can’t compare one tournament with another.

With doubles, I’ve never really gone out and been like, ‘I really want to win this tournament,’ or, ‘I really want to do well in doubles this week.’ It’s more extra time on the court and to go out there and have fun. And I’ve happened to do well at it.

Every tournament I have won has been memorable.

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

But the IPL is a long tournament and results keep going up and down invariably.

If you look at the players, they need more of a break. Some players only get as little as three weeks after a major tournament and it’s straight back to the grind.

I want to win every single tournament that I’m playing in.

Every year, I have a tournament in Czech Republic, so there are a lot of things I’m trying to do. Sometimes the money goes towards children; sometimes it’s for wheelchair tennis players. I try to change it so everybody gets something.

IPL is such a tournament that you end up knowing about the strengths and weaknesses of everyone because you are playing with so many people in the same side.

In those years between 2010 and 2012, I was so consistent, not only on all surfaces, but just in terms of entering a tournament and winning matches.

Wherever I’m at, if I’m playing well I can put myself into a position to win any tournament, including grand slams.

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.

When I was a player, and since then, we have never been so snobbish as to go into a tournament saying, ‘We will win this World Cup.’ We aren’t like that.

I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn’t necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake.

I love Augusta. I get to cover what I consider to be the best golf tournament of the year, and I really would like to think that one day – God willing, CBS willing – I’d be able to say that I worked 50 Masters.

Mental and physical preparation is critical in tournament poker events like the WSOP.

The timing of Ring of Honor actually giving a push to women’s wrestling and starting the Ring of Honor women’s tournament worked out well. It was good timing with all of that around me being a free agent.

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.

We surprised ourselves in ’84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn’t yet until we won the gold medal.

Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don’t know – at the Masters or any other golf tournament.

It doesn’t much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

You never know what will happen during a tournament: things like injuries, for example.

Every single time I get on the mat, every tournament, I get to see what I’m made of, how tough I am, where my desire is, and how hard I’ve worked.

I’m not a big proponent of the league tournament.

The role of a coach is varied. We have many tasks. To be a visionary that always looks a little bit towards the future: How should the team develop? How should it play at a tournament? Of course you also have to be the contact person for the players, where social competence also plays a role.

In tournament cricket, with a new opponent each game, I think you actually need to play to your own strengths more.

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

Whenever my kids have a tournament, or something going on, I make it a point to make sure I’m there for them every step of the way. That’s real important to me.

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Golf is all about patience – one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

There is always a lot of work going on behind the scenes at a tournament, and that’s even more true at the WTA Finals, where we have many activities during the day, and you really have to set everything up.

If you go into a tournament thinking that you’re not going to do anything, you might as well not be there because you won’t achieve anything.

Against Federer, is not easy to share the fan’s love. He is a local around the world in every tournament.

The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year.

I didn’t care about the Pride championship or the Pride tournament.

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

The end of a tournament is a good time to pause.

As long as every tournament, every year, you’re getting better and better, that’s all that matters.

At this level, if you are aiming for the World Cup, because the tournament is so long there will be points where the team may lose a couple of games.

My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.

I’m not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don’t want me as they feel I might get hurt so that’s fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

I was playing in a tournament in Brazil and an agent scouted me. He took me to his soccer school. The idea was he used it to scout players and anyone he thought was good enough he took over to Italy. That’s what he did with me when I was 15.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.

Since young people would much rather play fast-action, rapidly advancing video games, and gambling laws for slot machines and roulette tables haven’t changed much since the 1950s, look for casinos to build large video game tournament centers and allow people to bet on the action, similar to betting on college basketball.

There is always disappointment, heartache. You are losing almost every tournament. You need to just accept it and be positive because you are going to lose and fail. We’re not all Nadal or Djokovic, who can win most tournaments.

Every tournament I go to, I’m kind of learning a little bit mentally and on the course.

I think winning at Wimbledon’s huge. This is the biggest tournament in tennis for so many different reasons. You can see the history around the grounds. The Village around you, everyone lives for it.