Quotes About Tournaments

A lot of people knew at the national tournaments that I was a big puncher. We were known as 'Samson,' the boy with the long hair.

I used to make it deep in poker tournaments without ever moving all-in because other players knew that when I raised it up, I had the goods.

Since retiring from competitive chess, my focus is on education and organising children's tournaments: I make a point of never separating girls and boys, nor awarding special prizes for girls.

Of course, I believe injury has stopped me winning more tournaments.

I like to listen to Congolese music because when I was a kid with my father, he took me to play some tournaments in the car and always put on this music. I always fell asleep with this music so it's good things that I remember.

There are so many tournaments when I started this way. I was so shy. I didn't really play well. And then all of a sudden I found the very strong, powerful Gael Monfils.

I mean what's the point of them becoming professional snooker players? If there's not much money in the game, if there's no guarantee of future tournaments, if no one knows what's going on.

When I started playing all the players were trying to sell the game of snooker. Nowadays the prize money is so great, competing in tournaments is no laughing matter.

We don't have that many tournaments so sponsorship from logos is another way of helping boost your income.

We know how hard it is to travel around and if the schedules are really tight for you, it means you're doing really well because you're not going home early from many events. When you go deep in tournaments, that's the consequence you have to pay I suppose.

It used to be that a lot of the ranking tournaments were in Britain so British players could just drive an hour up the road and be there. I've had to travel from the other side of the world to play and live in the U.K.

To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.

I never contemplated retiring but when I was a teenager I never thought I'd play past 30 years old. I thought I'd win a few tournaments and then have a family.

Anything that would help me get my ranking up and get me seeded at tournaments will make my draws a lot easier and give me a much better opportunity to go deep in these tournaments.

The pressure on the English national team has always been very big at all the big tournaments.

The ATP is a difficult structure, it is 50% players, 50% tournaments. And so if you are the chairperson of that organization, it's very difficult to please everyone.

Grand Slams are four tournaments a year, so of course those are the big ones, those are the ones that people and us players want to do our best at. It's just high level quality of tennis.

Obviously, I want to do well in all tournaments, but if I had to pick, for sure Paris.

Sometimes in tournaments I'll see Argentinians with Boca shirts and flags and that gives me a boost.

Yeah, definitely on a mission now to compete to try to be winning these tournaments I'm playing.

When you have to play a lot of tournaments and you get more experience and you get more confidence playing a lot of matches, and also you get mentally strong.

Something that needs to be better is making sure our athletes have the right insurance claims and are protected when we're going into major tournaments and representing our countries.

We'd like to encourage more regional and national tournaments for our paralympians so they can regularly compete and hone their skills.

I think tournaments are starting to become a bit more open with more players able to fight, and I want to be part of that bright future.