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The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.
Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.
I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.
I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.
I think, in a tournament, things are always a little more exciting.
The 2017 European Championship was my first major tournament for England, but everyone tells me the World Cup is a different level.
Wimbledon is not the easiest tournament in which to make a comeback.
When I went to Q school, I was walking into a tournament where 500 other players all wanted the same thing as me.
My favorite tournament is the U.S. Open because the atmosphere is great.
My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.
I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That's what I play for.
To be the best in a tournament like the World Cup is a success for me personally.
I have led a few teams prior to the IPL, led in Mumbai T20 as well as DY Patil T20 tournament.
One tournament can change everything for you. You never know when that tournament might be.
When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.
I think the key to poker is being steady and giving yourself a chance to win every tournament.
The Matchplay is a straight knock-out tournament so everybody is under pressure straight away - I prefer that.
When I grew up, I never - I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.
The Masters isn't about Jim Nantz and his storytelling. It's about golf's greatest tournament.
A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup finals with their country.
Every tournament that I go to, I'll prepare my absolute best to play my best golf. And if my best golf is a Top-10, then so be it.
I think everyone will agree that it doesn't matter how we get to an international tournament. We are going to do whatever it takes.
For me, losing is definitely not easy, but I think you just have to keep everything in perspective. Just remember that there's another tournament around the corner.
It's one of my basic premises for tournament play: Choose to bet the lesser amount when a smaller-sized bet will accomplish the same objective as a bigger one.
Brisbane is my favourite tournament... I have great memories here and always like to start the year here.
The World Cup is the ultimate moment for any player. It is the opportunity to defend your country in the biggest tournament in the world and the moment the whole world will watch you play.
The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
My whole life, I grew up watching Tiger Woods. If I tuned in to a golf tournament, that's who I watched.
But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.
I always feel if I work hard, if I can practice 100%, then the results will come. Whether it's the first tournament, the third tournament, it's going to come.
It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
I've won league championships, and I helped pull off a massive NCAA tournament upset - our 15-versus-2 win over Duke in 2012.
Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well.
If I'm winning a lot and going deep in a tournament, I don't do a lot of heavy workouts. I'll instead do a lot of short sessions where we focus on functional exercises, with the matches obviously being the major workout for each day.
At this level, if you are aiming for the World Cup, because the tournament is so long there will be points where the team may lose a couple of games.
If you are in a tournament, you have to think of yourself - you can't think of your wife or children - only about yourself. Otherwise, you wake up, eat, prepare, do everything you can to be in good shape.
Obviously it's easier to say, treat it like another event, but it's not, you know? It's just not. It's the Masters, and I want to win that tournament more than anything.
Joe Perry is always a big hurdle, he's always there in the later stages of a tournament. You have to be playing well to beat him, and if you do that you know you have a chance of winning the title.
If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.
I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.
Important in a big tournament is how you start. With a great match at the start, you can distance yourself from the unrest from outside. And it increases the respect among opponents.
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.
Sometimes you watch a tournament with a point system, and it's not the best fighter that wins. It's the guy who scores more points and then he runs away and hides.
In an ideal world, the season would end, and the players would have two to three weeks by the beach. You'd have four to five weeks of preparation, and then you'd play the tournament.
Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.
A competitive HIL can do wonders for India hockey. The tournament will promote young talents and give them the opportunity to play alongside and against some of the best in the business.
To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the beginning then you can win games and build confidence. I think the key is just to get off to a good start.
Everything in my life - family, friends, even my fiance - are all second to soccer. And I've won every tournament where I haven't had anyone there. It just seems to work for me. I don't think I'm going to change that.