Quotes About Tournaments

I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!'

As I started developing, as I started playing more tournaments and getting higher in the rankings, I saw I had massive potential.

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 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.

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

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 don't pick tournaments to score or rivals or other teams to score against. I'm a striker: every game I play, I want to score.

I don't compare tournaments.

Movement is one of the most important things. My consistency, everything - there's a lot to improve. Coaches are never happy. But I'd like to keep improving, go deeper in the tournaments, and get as high in the rankings as possible.

Tournaments, traditionally, are kind of the way martial arts contests happen.

Winning domestic tournaments like leagues, cups, and super cups adds to your standing in your country, but once you take a step forward in Europe and lift that European Cup, I think that prestige extends to the global stage.

My father didn't compete ever in martial arts tournaments because they were not real. They were tag tournaments or touch tournaments, which he thought was bizarre and not really what the martial arts is about.

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.

I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always have new ideas for my golf attire, and I like to dress nice after the rounds, so I have to bring all my heels. It's terrible. The worst part about being on tour is living out of a suitcase.

At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.

There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.

My first season at Liverpool had good moments but also bad ones. We played three tournaments and we played two finals, and that was good.

Being from Florida and playing so many tournaments on that beach in Fort Lauderdale, I just want to be on that beach playing.

I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.

In general, I enjoy watching different sport tournaments and competitions.