Quotes About Competition

If you're not at the elite levels there are a lot more opportunities to play tournaments.

There are big tournaments going on around the world, and some of them you cannot ignore because, financially, they make a huge difference in our lives.

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

It's great to look back at when we used to play in the neighbourhood, seeing mum shouting and also how we grew up playing in football tournaments between the estates. We'd go to another estate and play them. Also, seeing yourself progress bit by bit - those are all happy memories.

I am most challenged by playing cash games against the world's top players. These games force me to think several moves in advance, like in a game of chess. And though I also find tournaments fun to play, they just don't provide the constant brain buzz that cash game players crave.

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.

I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn't.

Everyone wants to play at the top level - everyone wants to play in the biggest tournaments in the world - so, obviously, the Champions League is one.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

I have been in tournaments before where people would say, 'England should win this game,' and we didn't.

Just being away from home was the toughest bit. Battling injuries, going to tournaments, and not even playing was tough, but they're not really big problems.

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

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.

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 experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

I want to win as many tournaments as I can.