Quotes About Tournaments

I've been in tournaments before when you've been away for a while, and you're not really playing, you're just training. Sometimes you can feel like you're not really part of it.

I've had it with the USGA and the way they run their tournaments. The USGA loves to embarrass guys who play in their tournaments.

I got into poker in the early 2000s. In snooker tournaments, you are always looking for things to pass the time between matches, so we'd play together, or I would play online.

The most I ever played was 12 or 13 tournaments. Now they're talking about almost 20, and it's all year round, playing through the summer as well.

Did I have a mis-spent youth? I suppose I did in that I left school early without any qualifications, having bunked off a few times for tournaments.

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.

I think we've always got to have a mind of the feeling for the supporters about the importance of each match. We've got to be careful not to make tournaments too big and then make qualifying too straightforward.

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.

Everyone dreams of playing March Madness and playing in those tournaments, big-time games.

Of course, I want to play for England as often as I can and at major tournaments.

With tournaments such as the Women's Big Bash and the Kia Super League, women are now well practised in the art of big strokeplay.

I enjoy commentating on the big tournaments for the BBC, the occasional exhibition match, and my business interests.

In tournaments, you want to steal the blinds as cheaply as possible without risking a high percentage of your chips.

For me, I relish playing tournaments in America.

We have regularly won medals at all tournaments and I think after 'Dangal,' the craze for wrestling increased among the girls.

I would like to work 50 Masters Tournaments.

And my job is to look at the future of English cricket and develop a side that is capable of winning important series and tournaments in the next four years. And that is what I am going to concentrate on doing.

Playing only when you have a strong hand, also known as being a slave to the cards, is simply not the way to win tournaments.

Being a professional chess player is not very family-friendly and I am away quite often playing tournaments, sometimes for 12 days at a time. I catch up with Gusztav every day on Skype and email but even though I miss them, I don't make a point of ringing the children every night.

In juniors, you travel with about 12 other players and you all go to the same tournaments and practise together so it's like being with your friends.

Snooker's only popular in China now. Well China's OK to go to once or twice a year but to go and play six or seven tournaments there is too much.

I remember that if you went down to the Crucible or other snooker tournaments it was all the snooker writers, and then all of a sudden when the game became popular on television it wasn't only snooker writers: it was what we called special correspondents.

I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.

I was very surprised when Dhoni retired from Test cricket; I thought he would have kept playing. He is a big player and you need big players in big tournaments.