Tournament Quotes

The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders.

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

I train myself mentally with visualization.

The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

The tournament slipped through my hands.

I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.

You always love playing in finals at any tournament.

The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.

We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.

The Masters is a very important tournament.

You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.

The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.

I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

I give up on spending time on these courts;

I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament.

When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.

I try to win every tournament.

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday.

Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.

When I was 14, I played in a summer league.

One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St.

Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money.

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked.

On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me.

It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.