Quotes About Travel

My wife is a much better tourist than me.

Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains - and one million mountains in the world are empty.

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.

The sheeplike nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.

The way you get to explore a city when you are on shoot is so different from when you are there as a tourist.

When I land in a new country, I'm a tourist. I can't become a local in one day.

If I'm trying to get you to travel by showing you the best places in the world to eat, I think enthusiasm goes a long way. Especially because I'm not a chef, I'm not an expert. I'm a tourist like you.

There's a new tourist born every minute.

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

When I come to London, it is always quite relaxing for me in a way, not just because it is one of my favourite cities but because it comes immediately after the French Open, which for me is a very significant tournament with lots of pressure.

Sometimes we complain about being on the road all the time, from tournaments to exhibitions and sponsors' appearances, but really it's a doddle.

When I was starting out, it was almost impossible for me to get visas to travel to tournaments.

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

I can picture it now, where I grew and me playing in the cage where I used to play. To see what I've achieved and where I've been, the countries I've seen, tournaments I've played in, players I've played against, it's incredible.

I've always loved Charleston. It's always been one of my favorite 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.

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.