I had a few brief, brief interactions with Coach K. Mainly us beating them in the NCAA Tournament back in 2012.
I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
I’m a very good sleeper, especially during a tournament; I usually get eight hours a night, even before a big match.
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.
No matter the event, a Super Bowl, an NFL game, a rank-and-file golf tournament, there is a demand when you are live and exposed to try to get it right and do justice to the event. That’s the way I have always approached it.
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.
I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
If I lose early in the tournament, I can work out and try to improve. When the tournament is done, I’m just trying to get well and work on the recovery for the next day.
IPL is a T20 franchise tournament combining cricket and Bollywood to offer entertainment.
I had many attempts to become No. 1, and it was really tough mentally to keep believing that it would happen one day, but then it was really tough to stay there because I felt the pressure at every tournament.
It’s really, really cool when you win a tournament. And it’s great for the people who go on the journey with you.
In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.
Trust me when I tell you that Andy Roddick has the game to win a major poker tournament. I’ve played Hold ’em with him several times and he consistently demonstrates the kind of playing style and competitive drive that gives him a legitimate chance to win.
I don’t know that I’ll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate. I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home.
For me, the Premier League is the best tournament in the world. It’s the hardest; you need to be 100 per cent to play every game.
I don’t really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that’s the important thing: managing emotion.
I was a fan of the NCAA Tournament and watching when I could, but now I have files on over a 120 college teams that I have been building on over the last few years.
I’ve won league championships, and I helped pull off a massive NCAA tournament upset – our 15-versus-2 win over Duke in 2012.
Every time I go into a tournament, I’m strictly on my own. I know I’m playing for my bread and butter.
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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.
I am a professional squash player, and I recently played badly – but as well as I could – in a professional squash tournament. A professional squash player might sound like someone who is in a food-tasting group, but it is a racquet sport.
The FA Cup as a tournament was very good to me. I’d like to think I can still have some association with that because it was the Ronnie Radford goal for Hereford against Newcastle which really put me on the map in 1972.
You 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.
I work better under pressure. I was the local badminton champion when I was a kid, and there was another girl who used to thrash me for the five days leading up to the tournament and then I would just nail her to the floor in the competition.
The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.
Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it’s no big deal.
I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That’s what I play for.
You will often see a young player have something of a hangover following a major tournament.
When you play the same tournament as Federer, Murray, Djokovic and Rafa, they have more media than me, for sure.
I wanted to play for England at a World Cup and to grace the pitch for even two minutes at such a big tournament would have been huge.
I still get goose-bumps when I walk into the All England Lawn Tennis Club at the start of tournament and that will never change.
I’ve been to so many deals with so many of my peers. I hate to say it, but you go, and it’s some tournament or big party or dinner, and you don’t even know what you’re raising money for. It’s like, ‘Oh, it’s for the kids.’ Thanks. But what are you doing?
I’ve played at the top level for years now and know it’s the small percentages that matter. That’s what the difference is between you getting to a major tournament or not.
I’ve taken two weeks off before I’ve played a major, and I’ve played two straight weeks before a major as well. I definitely feel it’s important, whether I’ve taken time off or played right before, that I take necessary rest time in the weeks before the tournament.
But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can’t make any mistakes so you have to, it’s all about where you’re sitting at the table.
Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.
I think I should win every tournament I enter.
Every player would love to play a tournament like the World Cup at home.
When I prepare for any tournament, I just feel that I want to give my best in the tournament as I may not get the next opportunity and I don’t want to regret it after this tournament.
When the UFC announced that 125 tournament, I remember thinking, ‘Finally, this is my spot.’
Playing in a big tournament is one of the biggest things for a professional footballer.
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
It was hard growing up because there was nothing close. I never went to a golf tournament.
The first time I won a medal at a female wrestling tournament, all of the other girls there had coaches and family members cheering them on. I went in alone, said nothing, wrestled three girls and beat three girls – convincingly.
I’d never seen Rigondeaux’s face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I’d ever seen in Cuba.
I want to make the Tartan Army happy and qualify for a major tournament. That’s the goal.
In golf, you definitely have your ranking. But it’s a bit different than tennis. Whenever there’s a golf tournament, you feel like almost anyone can win.
I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.
A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players’ career to get to a World Cup finals with their country.
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.
Sometimes the media highlight a record for me that I did not know anything about but setting a record at a prestigious tournament like the World Cup makes me happy.
Yes, it was fun playing the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. But I just wasn’t satisfied. To have that one big win in a big tournament on that big stage – I don’t have that.
My first professional fight was a tournament with maybe one or two thousand people there.
The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm’s golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I’m so competitive, I don’t want to go and just pretend I’m a good golfer.
The world’s most successful tournament competitors – like me, Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, Phil Hellmuth, and countless others – like to play small ball poker. It’s a style that we use to steadily increase our stacks in no limit hold’em tournaments without having to assume significant risk.
The reason I wrote about women’s golf is because I’ve helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
