Quotes About Competition

The thing about the 'Broken Skull Challenge' is that there's really nothing else like it on television.

I'm really proud of 'Broken Skull Challenge.'

The sky is the limit now, us women are showing that we can beat men and hopefully it will open more doors.

I love being on Sky Sports, the big hype around the games and stuff like that.

When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.

Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run by companies not based in the U.S.A. The rest of the world has simply failed in being able to compete with them, and we really should be doing better here.

Putting up a great performance against Lamont Peterson will skyrocket me. The goal is to become the No. 1 welterweight in the division, so if I keep beating these guys around me and then fight Keith Thurman, people will rate me as No. 1 because I've beat the top names, and he's been inactive.

As Americans, we're raised with this idea of, 'We're number one.' As an individual, you absorb and you consume until you skyrocket to the top with your money and your whatever. That's not my philosophy. My philosophy is quite the opposite in that there's limited space, we have limited resources, and so it's not about the individual.

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

I don't get complacent, because I know if you slack off, you're going to be found out. This is international boxing, and every fight is a tough fight.

The world's most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn't let us win at Monopoly... he wouldn't cut any slack for his children. My sister's also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.

In America, they slag each other off at the press conference, then get in the ring and don't do anything.

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that's to win a U.S. Open and complete the Grand Slam. I enjoy that challenge. Every year it comes around, I get excited to try to conquer that opportunity. I love it.

To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.

Being in a Grand Slam, doesn't matter what you did before, it's always nervous and excitement.

When I was young and I could dream a bit, I could see myself participating in the slam dunk contest. I've always wanted to experience that.

I got to one Grand Slam final, and that's what you shoot for as a player.

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.

I don't think any player will miss a grand slam if they can play.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

If you want to win a Grand Slam, when you dream, you say, 'I want Serena in the final.'

It was a big pleasure to play a Grand Slam match on my birthday.