Quotes About Competition

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.

When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game.

'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.

I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.

I've enjoyed my phase of playing women's doubles.

Football is actually pretty limited and there are only really four phases: When you have the ball yourself, when the opponent has the ball and when you win the ball or lose the ball. That is football, really, there isn't more to it.

I think it's phenomenal and expected that Paralympians will take on able bodied people more and more. In dressage, it happens all the time. But there are very few adaptions, and they are never allowed to give you an advantage.

People like to call themselves fans of fighting and fans of the sport, but if you're a fan of fighting, how can you not like watching Demetrious Johnson? He's the best at it. He's the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why wouldn't you enjoy watching that guy perform? He does a phenomenal job every time he's in there.

Back home, the Iron Bowl isn't just a football game, it's a phenomenon.

Everyone's talking about Phil Davis and what he did in college. It's an accomplishment to win an NCAA title. I don't want to discredit that. But I believe if I would have wrestled him in college, I would have beat him.

I loss that fight to Phil Davis, but I'm not convinced on that fight. Because it wasn't fair for me. I'd like to do another fight.

I think there's a lot of successful referees to come out of the Philadelphia area because the basketball is so good.

Darts is huge in the Philippines and Pacquiao is much bigger over there than David Beckham is here. I'm happy playing darts against him but I wouldn't want to box him.

I want the kids in the Philippines to compete with the world, with other kids out there, to have the opportunity. You never know, you might find the next Black Eyed Peas out there.

The Celtics were always going to pick me No. 1, but Philly didn't know that.

Philly DJs sort of always won battles and always won awards and stuff like that and were always super sharp.

I always tried to win. Philly saw that.

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

At the end of the day, it's a business about fighters and a business about people. This is our philosophy.

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps.

I think in Phoenix Phoenix is like the run and gun team. We used to do a drill where we'd try to score in the first seven seconds. We used to do that in practice.