I’m not at my physical peak, but if I can still beat guys, many of whom were born after I won my first tournament, that’s a great accomplishment.
My wrestling dream was to become a Division I national champion. That was my No. 1 dream – not Olympics, not money. Just winning that tournament.
The great thing about T20 is that it only takes one performance. One piece of individual brilliance can win a game and that can change the whole way you approach a tournament.
Emma gave me some of my favorite matches – the NXT Women’s Tournament and then NXT ArRIVAL.
Stay in school, kids, and make sure that you play a lot of ‘Street Fighter,’ especially if you’re going to play someone at a tournament in front of a lot of people, so you don’t get beat.
Each tournament is equally important.
That’s something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.
It’s difficult to keep going the good results, to feel good every tournament, every year in row.
The pro playoff system doesn’t cause the same tension. Suppose a team has a bad night? It can bounce back in the next game. In college tournament all they can hope for is the consolation, maybe.
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.
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.
The World Cup is a very complicated tournament – six games, seven if you make it to the final – and maybe if you lose one game you’re out, even if you’re the best.
I want to be a top-10 player and I want to win a Grand Slam tournament.
We propose that UFC and Akhmat face off in a tournament… And we’ll see who has the strongest fighters. I think it would be quite a spectacle.
I admired the tournament system because it brings some reality to the game. You had to beat everybody to get your title shot. It wasn’t something random, you got there because you beat everybody else.
We have a very good history in hockey and when I look back into my own career, I know I do have a lot of FIH medals, I have medals almost in every tournament but not one in World Cup or Olympics.
A coach needs to be a psychologist, because during a tournament you’re looking after a team of players which is being watched closely and put under a lot of pressure.
I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota’s golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.
