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In tournaments, you want to steal the blinds as cheaply as possible without risking a high percentage of your chips.
I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.
We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'
Our job as players is to show up to tournaments, put on a show for The R&A and for the Tour and to handle our business.
I used to be jack the lad, I was out a lot, I was mainly waking up with hangovers at tournaments rather than preparing.
You may be the best team in the world, but you can't win all the tournaments. That's what the media does not understand.
As an England fan, you want to be involved in the big tournaments, especially when they are playing in your home stadium.
I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams and all that.
To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.
I was always really smart in school. My whole family is smart. We have 'Jeopardy' challenges and have Scrabble tournaments.
Being from Florida and playing so many tournaments on that beach in Fort Lauderdale, I just want to be on that beach playing.
I don't wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It's something I don't care about.
In Brazil, we believe a lot in skill. We think it will decide matches and tournaments. Sometimes we forget the tactical side.
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.
We have regularly won medals at all tournaments and I think after 'Dangal,' the craze for wrestling increased among the girls.
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.
Here's one general rule that applies to No Limit Hold'em tournaments: Avoid playing coin flip situations for all of your chips.
I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.
I always knew I could win tournaments in the U.K. but there was a question mark over whether I could deal with playing in China.
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 won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days.
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'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.
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.
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 don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.
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.
It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.
To win a Grand Slam, you have to win seven matches in a row, and it's very different physically and mentally from other tournaments.
Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player who is getting a bit better each year.
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn't.
On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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.
I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
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.
Some tournaments are played in one day - you might start at nine o'clock in the morning and it won't end till one o'clock the next morning.
If I'm going to play, I'm going to have to give it 100%, which means I'm going to have to play in all of the tournaments that I don't like.
Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.
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.
Once you get a feeling for trophies and going far in European tournaments with your club, then you want to replicate that with your country.
I've always enjoyed playing in Switzerland. The crowd support is amazing here, and Basel is one of the best indoor tournaments in the world.
There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.
It will never be much fun until a Proteas team finally goes out and wins one of these ICC limited-overs tournaments. That will happen one day.
I just had to get on the golf course and play holes whether it was practice or tournaments. Just keep playing. There's nothing else you can do.
I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
I think at one point there were three television channels showing 'Starcraft' tournaments in South Korea. We were so unprepared for its success.
Sometimes we complain about being on the road all the time, from tournaments to exhibitions and sponsors' appearances, but really it's a doddle.
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.
Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.