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Quotes About Competition

I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.
~ Branch Warren
I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle.
~ Draymond Green
Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.
~ Bud Wilkinson
Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.
~ Ryan Giggs
I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.
~ Allyson Felix
When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people.
~ Stu Ungar
I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.
~ Hope Solo
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.
~ Marla Runyan
You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.
~ Tiger Woods
Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.
~ Justin Bieber
never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you
~ Walter Wink
Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.
~ Edsel Ford
You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.
~ Abby Wambach
I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.
~ Danica Patrick
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
~ Daniel Ek
Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.
~ Tori Amos
When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?
~ Jerry West
When I'm going against guys like Kevin Durant - one of the best leading scorers in the league - it pushes you to want to get better, seeing how hard he works.
~ John Wall
There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.
~ Denzel Washington
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
~ Samuel Johnson
We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.
~ Bret Bielema
We have 21 races in the year and Monaco is the one that you want to win.
~ Lewis Hamilton