Quotes About Competition

Joe Stubbs was very jealous of me, especially after 'I Found a Love.' We'd be on stage and he'd lay traps for me, make me look bad.

I'm not one to trash talk my opponents. If the talk is on, then let's go, I'll say the truth - nothing more or less. But it doesn't affect me in my competition.

I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.

Draymond's always talking trash, and he's really good at getting you off your game. He's one of the guys that he'll talk trash, even when you're playing golf. He will knock you off your game... But when you see his swing, you're like, 'How do you talk trash so well, and your swing's this bad?'

Rankings mean nothing. You have to talk trash.

You can't always expect us to trash our opponents.

When I put my helmet on, I'm ultra competitive, talking trash.

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

I trash talk all the time.

If I play against you the first time - or it doesn't even have to be the first time - and you want to be all physical and just talk, or talking trash or whatever, it just gets me going.

I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.

You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.

I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.

I'll see trash talk and people telling me why they're favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.

I love when people talk trash.

I love when guys come at the beginning of the game and start talking trash. It gets me going.

I'm competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you're talking trash, you're gonna get a reaction out of me.

With MJ and Kobe, what you get is you get people who is talking trash to you and backing it up.

Even in practice, me and Kobe get into it every day. I do my best to challenge him. He's still going to be Kobe, talking trash.

I don't like when people talk trash and then they get the W after and they feel like they did something. I don't like that feeling.

My rookie year, we used to play all the time, literally play 'Call of Duty' all the time, because it was like all of the younger guys on the team would get into the communication with the headsets and talking trash.

I know if someone talked trash to me, I'd want to kick his butt.

Yeah, I probably talk a little bit of trash.

I keep all my trash talk to basketball. I don't ever go after anybody.